News tagged with voice synthesis

Computers sing to a better tune

Would you dance to a synthetic song? A new approach to making computer-generated vocals more "human" is reported this month in the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What if we used poetry to teach computers to speak better?

A better understanding of how we use acoustic cues to stress new information and put old information in the background may help computer programmers produce more realistic-sounding speech.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Speech Synthesizer Helps Movie Critic

The voices you hear on message services are often created artificially by fitting together short audio snippets from a large library of vocalized words and sounds. Scientists are now moving beyond the older ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NEC Develops Technologies that Assess Author's Feelings from Text

NEC Corporation announced today the development of two new technologies that evaluate an author's feelings based on text data in order to automatically generate entertaining blog content. The technologies ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0