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From: gwe@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phonemes: why not just digitize them?
Message-ID: <3357@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 12:35:30 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3357
Posted: Fri Feb 13 12:35:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Feb-87 23:59:13 EST
References: <663@goanna.oz> <5832@ukmj.ukma.ms.uky.csnet> <4111@utcsri.UUCP> <9146@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: gwe@cbosgd.UUCP (Bill Thacker)
Organization: AT&T Network Systems , Columbus, OH
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In article <9146@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:
>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}
>>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?
>
While I don't work in that area, I do know that the recording you speak of is
just that. It contains one section "The number you have reached...", which
was digitized as spoken by somebody, then assembles the digits (each one
individually digitized), then plays the trailer, "has been disconnected".

The message isn't constructed from phonemes, or even at the word level.
It's basically an answering machine with 4k RAM. :-)

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