Hi, I can't give a better explanation, really, apart from it's to do with frequencies being strung together. Someone who knows what they're doing with Speech Synthesis should, theoretically, be able to make a keyboard talk, all be it course. ---
Matthew F. Horspool Telephone: +44(0)121-288 2062 E-Mail/MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: mhorspool Skype: matthewhorspool ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:55 AM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] how does it work? I'll have to defer on that one Josh. Maybe try a Google search to see if you can get any info. Jonathan Mosen BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager HumanWare DDI: +1-925-566-9265 http://www.humanware.com Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED] n.edu> To Sent by: Braillenote List braillenote-bounc <[email protected]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] OFEE690AED.D509E732-ONCC257060.0012 .com [EMAIL PROTECTED] m cc 17/08/2005 04:51 p.m. Subject Re: [Braillenote] how does it work? Please respond to Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .humanware.com> 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
