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From: lachac@topaz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Phonemes: why not just digitize them?
Message-ID: <9146@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 19:14:02 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.9146
Posted: Wed Feb 11 19:14:02 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 20:23:41 EST
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Reply-To: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <4111@utcsri.UUCP> flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>In a recent article sean@ukmj.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes:
>> {about digitized phonemes}
>
>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.


In that case then, how are the phone companies recorded messages done?
("The number you have reached..")???  Aren't those computer generated?

Also at work we have a Periphonics with a FANTASTIC female voice.  I 
understand that the Amiga would probably be incapable of doing this,
(maybe with 8 megs....?) I was wondering if the voice on the Amy could be
improved...





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