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Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM

Posted by Hemos on from the understanding-the-language dept.

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."

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  1. Re:PHONEME, y'all, not *phenome by WeeBull · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. 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!

  2. *blush* by WeeBull · · Score: 5, Funny
    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*