News tagged with voice synthesis

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

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

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