Re: OT: 4D
| From: | Damian Yerrick <tepples@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 27, 2005, 16:45 |
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"Simon Clarkstone" <simon.clarkstone@...> wrote
> Anyway, though 4D sound is still just vibrations and we would be able
> to hear it, we would have great difficulty pronouncing it. (Now
> *that's* a niche market, mouth simulators for simulating sounds of
> phonemes, especially in 4D!)
In 4D, it might be extremely niche, but in our 3D world, commercial
speech synthesis and speech compression techniques are based on
(crude) physical models of the mouth as a tube or two, although
practical applications use an abstraction called "formant synthesis".
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Damian