Comments on the Text to Speech "algorithm"

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  That would probably be ok for reading books, but it
would suck for a screen reader.  One reason I haven't
used Cepstral Swift much even though I own several voices, is it's not
responsive enough for daily screen reading.
The file access alone for so many mp3s would be aweful.

          Kenny

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:47:13PM +0100, marc wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I made this remark at the http://rmll.info last summer in Nantes.
> 
> I you have Text to Speech (TTS), the "old" way is to invent some
> mathematical function and to generate a "sound" which is "close" (in
> Hausdorf distance?) to the spoken words.
> 
> But these mathematical formulas date from times when computers
> didn't have the possibilities to contain about 60.000 MP3s from a
> human speaker. If we could organise it that way, the concatanation
> of the words would be better than the mathematical contruction.  And
> if you learned how to make a higher sound at the end of a question,
> you should be able to adapt the mp3 too.
> 
> Problem is: we will have to throw away a lot of work by
> mathematicians...  Mathematicians never had patents (the Greek would
> be rich ;-).  But we throw away a lot of stuff in computer science
> ...
> 
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
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