Re: IPA speech synthesizer

BP Jonsson wrote:
> On 2009-02-19 Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> > the individual segments in a speech stream affect each
> other so much that you can't just splice together phones
> and get a result that sounds like speech.
>
> Or to put it otherwise 'segments' are just the
> wave-tops in the stream, corresponding to when
> the speech-organs are closest to their target
> positions, separated by throughs/transitions
> which actually take up most of the stream.
> The discreetness between segments which we think
> we perceive are a product of the analysis
> of the sound stream which our brain performs
> before the perceived signal even reaches
> our consciousness.
>
Would it not be poassible to create a machine that could read and reproduce
spectrograms? (Or is that what Alex's "bigrams" meant?)

But on second thought, that's redundant-- to create a spectrogram you have to
(usually) make recording first, so why not just go with the recording...?

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