Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM 197
jscribner writes "Scientific American is running a feature on IBM Research's Text-to-Speech technology. It discusses the current state of affairs in this field, and describes IBM's phoneme based 'Supervoices' approach. The IBM site provides a demonstration, allowing users to enter text to be rendered to speech, as well as providing several examples in other languages."
speaking of the /. effect (Score:4, Funny)
IBM Text-to-Speech Research Demonstration
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Re:Does the poster have something against IBM (Score:2, Funny)
This could be a hit... (Score:1, Funny)
...if they make some sort of interface between e-books and text-to-speech. Instant 'sound-book' *smiles*. No longer do the visualy impared have to wait for someone to make the soundbook for them, no longer do I need to actually read the long, booring documents people send me at work.
With the right technical document, this could cure insomnia as well...
Re:PHONEME, y'all, not *phenome (Score:5, Funny)
Here's another text-to-speech site (Score:4, Funny)
Some of the voices sound okay I guess. Better than Stephen Hawking anyway.
Re:AT&T have been doing this for a while! (Score:3, Funny)
It actually sounded like "Shbansheehailsacthoowawaaaawaaaens"
I remember you could also turn it on while you were programming, so evertime you pressed a key it would say "ONE ZERO PRINT QUOTE ACH EE ELL ELL O QUOTE ENTER TWO ZERO ENTER RUN ENTER". I used to drive me batty. It was one of those eighties things which you thought was "cool" at the time, but had no practical use. I think they were only ever invented so you could show your neighbours how advanced your computer is: "LOOK, IT CAN TALK TO ME!"
*blush* (Score:5, Funny)
Oh ... just me? *blush*
ack. no good (Score:3, Funny)
give me! give me! oh! I am coming!! OHHHH!
Actually I did try it. the result (of the above line) was not spectacular. I am impressed with the quality in general, though. Tried "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken," but that needs to be said with feelings as well, I suppose.
Oh yeah, this kind of technology is excellent for a computer to read out the sites to you, if, say, your eyes are tired. It should work wonders for slashdot, even.
Listen to "US female 2" (Score:1, Funny)
"Aargh! I've been slashdotted!" [fys.ku.dk]
Bandwidth sponsored by danish research funding...
Re:Phonemes not phenomes (Score:1, Funny)
Conversation at IBM (Score:1, Funny)
Tech guy 2> Bah.. bet it wouldnt support 2 people
Tech guy 1> It would!
Tech guy 2> Prove it... (loud musical sound of doom follows) post it to slashdot
Tech guy 1> Ulp... (reluctantly taps away on the keyboard)
5 minutes later, strained sounds can faintly be heard from the smoking pile of rubble that used to be the server room, and the fried piece of circuit board that used to be the shiny new voice system crackles begin to wane, still trying to come up with 500,000 convincing renditions of "goatsec"
A speak center (Score:1, Funny)
Not very good TTS (Score:2, Funny)
What I wish On-Star would actually say [dweebsofdeath.com]
A slightly-edited announcement calling our Bulldog to attend to a special matter [dweebsofdeath.com]
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