then to be more specific, how does formant speech work? What am I hearing when I hear keynote speech or eloquence?
Josh > ----- Original Message ----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:27:11 +1200 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] how does it work? >Hi Josh, firstly the disclaimer, I'm just the product manager, who can't >programme his way out of a paper bag. But I can tell you that there are >broadly speaking two kinds of speech in common usage. Formative speech is >traditional synthesised speech, where a human voice is not involved at all. >This is the kind of speech offered by keyNote Gold, and for that matter, >Eloquence. These days it's all done in software and the sounds are played >through the sound card. Concatenated speech is where a human goes into a >studio and records a range of phonemic sounds. Voices like this include >AT&T Natural Voices, the Cepstral Voices and RealSpeak to name a few. Tiny >samples of the speech are strung together to form the words. These usually >require a reasonably fast processor. >Jonathan Mosen >BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager >HumanWare >DDI: +1-925-566-9265 >http://www.humanware.com >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
