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From: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phonemes: why not just digitize them?
Message-ID: <4111@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 02:25:25 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4111
Posted: Wed Feb 11 02:25:25 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 03:35:38 EST
References: <663@goanna.oz> <5832@ukmj.ukma.ms.uky.csnet>
Reply-To: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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In a recent article sean@ukmj.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes:
>You know, with a 512k amiga and a low sampling rate, you could probably
>fit all the digitized phonemes you ever wanted in memory.  They'd
>probably sound a hell of a lot better, too.

They'd sound terrible.  The narrator does a lot of intonation, etc.  This
is currently based on a model of human speech and could not be adapted
directly to work with digitized sounds.  Assuming you didn't have this in
mind, just cutting up phonemes and pasting them together would sound like those
talking clocks that say "The time.  is?  five!  thirty.."  except much worse
because the oddness would be on a phoneme, and not word, level.

-- 

Alan J Rosenthal

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