Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:57:49 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' Message-ID: <20090425175749.7d4f1c62.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <d356c5630904250547p6e3090a6n21564bd253c8a6c0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090424201644.GA69617@thought.org> <200904240438.07178.lists@jnielsen.net> <20090424231843.GA91766@thought.org> <20090425110859.f52460eb.freebsd@edvax.de> <d356c5630904250547p6e3090a6n21564bd253c8a6c0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:47:04 -0500, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very good point. (Especially since Majel Barrett-Roddenberry,
> voice of the computer in the original tv series of "Star Trek," is no longer
> with us.)
You could employ the computer voice woman from "The Andromeda
Strain" (the movie by Robert Wise). :-)
> Writings of such a human nature deserve a real human's voice and
> interpretation.
You can do a lot with synthesized spoken language, but the
human "voice perception apparatus" reacts to them differently
than it does to a native (natural) voice, even if both say the
same text.
For example, the "Die Bahn" (our federal-wide railway company
for transportation of persons) uses a synthetic voice on some
stations. This voice is harder to understand when coming out
of the PA loudspeakers than the previously used natural human
voice was, allthough the human voice ocassionally spoke with
some accent or dialect ("Layptsh Houbtbarnhouf, alls nars
hibbe!" or "Beet olls arsshtoygn, dees Tsoog is karpoot!")
While the brain does automatically "correct" language properties
such as a (strange) dialect or accent, it searches for similar
patterns in the synthetic language (because it simply doesn't
sound "correct"), but cannot find them.
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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