Comments on: Biomechanical Speech Synthesis http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/12/biomechanical-speech-synthesis/ Jonesing For Robot News Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:18:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: slipdish http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/12/biomechanical-speech-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-2048 slipdish Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:08:04 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/12/biomechanical-speech-synthesis/#comment-2048 "to reproduce human speech so that they can reduce it to mechanical movements, and build that into a cell phone, which would be capable of an extremely high degree of voice compression" You know, they did this 80 years ago with the vocoder. From wikipedia: "the vocoder dramatically reduces the amount of information needed to store speech, from a complete recording to a series of numbers." The vocoder approach makes much more sense. A cellphone with lungs? Get out of here. “to reproduce human speech so that they can reduce it to mechanical movements, and build that into a cell phone, which would be capable of an extremely high degree of voice compression”

You know, they did this 80 years ago with the vocoder. From wikipedia:
“the vocoder dramatically reduces the amount of information needed to store speech, from a complete recording to a series of numbers.”

The vocoder approach makes much more sense. A cellphone with lungs? Get out of here.

]]> By: peren http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/12/biomechanical-speech-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-1906 peren Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:49:03 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/12/biomechanical-speech-synthesis/#comment-1906 huh. huh.

]]> By: Ironman http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/12/biomechanical-speech-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-1883 Ironman Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:27:44 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/12/biomechanical-speech-synthesis/#comment-1883 robots will take over because we'll be too busy laughing at them and their silly attempts to replicate human speech. robots will take over because we’ll be too busy laughing at them and their silly attempts to replicate human speech.

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