Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:40:20 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' Message-ID: <20090425234020.GA51120@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904251807580.3339@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> 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> <20090425175749.7d4f1c62.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904251807580.3339@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:08:36PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >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. > > until someone will make speech synthetizer good enough ;) i spent several hours yesterday poking around at the natural-voice and the entirely synthetic methodology of spoken language. the first is tricky enough. the second method that emulates the vocal mechanics probably gets into complexity theory! so maybe in another 50-75 years... . gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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