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*Digital Speech Generation, as the name suggests, is the process of making a computer "speak" a sequence of letters/words in a meaningful way. | *Digital Speech Generation, as the name suggests, is the process of making a computer "speak" a sequence of letters/words in a meaningful way. | ||
*For English, this is especially hard, because it is a very un-mathematical language. | *For English, this is especially hard, because it is a very un-mathematical language. | ||
| − | *What I mean by unmathematical, is that the "a" in "apple" is not pronounced the same way as the "a" in "hate". | + | *What I mean by unmathematical, is that the "a" in "apple" is not pronounced the same way as the "a" in "hate". In other words, letters do not sound the same way in different words. |
| + | *Sure, this might be true for consonants, but vowels, not by a long shot. | ||
| + | *Hindi for example, is a little more mathematical. The आ in आप, meaning "you" with respect, will be the same as the आ in आरंभ which means "start", and this is true for all uses of आ. | ||
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Revision as of 15:44, 25 October 2009
Digital Speech Generation
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Introduction
- Digital Speech Generation, as the name suggests, is the process of making a computer "speak" a sequence of letters/words in a meaningful way.
- For English, this is especially hard, because it is a very un-mathematical language.
- What I mean by unmathematical, is that the "a" in "apple" is not pronounced the same way as the "a" in "hate". In other words, letters do not sound the same way in different words.
- Sure, this might be true for consonants, but vowels, not by a long shot.
- Hindi for example, is a little more mathematical. The आ in आप, meaning "you" with respect, will be the same as the आ in आरंभ which means "start", and this is true for all uses of आ.
- For example,
Resources
- While the page gets worked on, here are some really cool web-pages about speech and phonetics that I came across in my research:
- The Upenn course slides are particularly good. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2008/ling520/week1/week1.pdf .You can change the week number at the end of the hyperlink to access the other slides.
- This page is good to hear what different parts of the phonetic alphabet sound like. http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm
- Also, on the UPenn webpage http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2008/ling520/ try the links to the labs they have some interesting stuff
--Dlamba 20:00, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
