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Here's a pretty nifty piece of software from IBM.
I tried it with "luxury yacht." If it had been my code, I would have programmed it so that if it saw those words together, it would come out "throatwarbler mangrove."
Posted by Rand Simberg at May 30, 2003 12:53 PM
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Well, how else would you pronounce it, really?
Posted by Dean Esmay at May 31, 2003 02:14 PM
You are a silly person and I'm not going to interview you.
Posted by Andrew at May 31, 2003 04:51 PM
At the risk of setting off a pointless flamewar, I'll point out that MacOS has had this kind of text-to-speech (this level of quality) for several years. IBM's voice-to-text work has been really interesting, but this text-to-voice work is hardly groundbreaking.
Posted by Jeff Medcalf at May 31, 2003 10:43 PM
Actually, this text-to-speech is a bit better than the Mac's, at least in the few samples I played with. With the second female voice, in a noisy environment, the "Hawking lisp" so common with this software, sounded more like it was from Minnesota.
The next step is to teach the software how to recognize abbreviations in context, so things like box scores and sports tickers are understandable.
Posted by Raoul Ortega at June 1, 2003 10:21 AM
I prefer Sniveling Little Rat-faced Git.
That's the beauty of it, I suppose.
Posted by David Perron at June 2, 2003 07:26 AM
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