Comments on: Learn a language with synthetic speech http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/04/11/learn-a-language-with-synthetic-speech/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Oliver http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/04/11/learn-a-language-with-synthetic-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-1786 Oliver Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:41:27 +0000 http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/04/11/learn-a-language-with-synthetic-speech/#comment-1786 The amazing thing is that a week ago I didn't even know what prosody was. The amazing thing is that a week ago I didn’t even know what prosody was.

]]> By: Alexandre Rafalovitch http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/04/11/learn-a-language-with-synthetic-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-1787 Alexandre Rafalovitch Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:23:44 +0000 http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/04/11/learn-a-language-with-synthetic-speech/#comment-1787 <![CDATA[It is not (any longer) the phonetics that is going to bite you. It is prosody. So, you can have a sentence in a neutral tone or even with vague question/exclamation tone, but there has been not enough research into making viable computer-generation intonation yet. Certainly not enough to produce a dialog yet. But good luck anyway. Maybe you will discover an alternative solution.]]> < ![CDATA[It is not (any longer) the phonetics that is going to bite you. It is prosody.

So, you can have a sentence in a neutral tone or even with vague question/exclamation tone, but there has been not enough research into making viable computer-generation intonation yet. Certainly not enough to produce a dialog yet.

But good luck anyway. Maybe you will discover an alternative solution.]]>

]]> By: An introduction to SALT. - OliverBrown.me.uk http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/04/11/learn-a-language-with-synthetic-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-1785 An introduction to SALT. - OliverBrown.me.uk Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:07:06 +0000 http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/04/11/learn-a-language-with-synthetic-speech/#comment-1785 <![CDATA[[...] il 12th, 2006 by Oliver The speech engine that I was talking about in my last article about speech synthesis is an add-in for Internet Explorer [...] ]]> < ![CDATA[[...] il 12th, 2006 by Oliver

The speech engine that I was talking about in my last article about speech synthesis is an add-in for Internet Explorer [...] ]]>

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