Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

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."

Comments

speaking of the /. effect

[trelanexiph]

I guess IBM didn't have much to say on the matter.

IBM Text-to-Speech Research Demonstration

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Re:PHONEME, y'all, not *phenome

[WeeBull]

.. and often uttered in distressed tones at the end of a night out, usually by desperate males attempting to re-attach themselves to some female. PHONEME! PLEASE PHONEME! I LOVE YOU! PHONEME!

Here's another text-to-speech site

[wiggys]

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/cgi-bin/ttsdem o

Some of the voices sound okay I guess. Better than Stephen Hawking anyway.

*blush*

[WeeBull]

Uhm, ok, who else did just spent 10 minutes (thoroughly) checking if IBM filter naughty words at the text-to-speech interface? Getting the female voices to utter favourable phrases regarding to one's studlyness, perhaps?

Oh ... just me? *blush*