Re: IPA speech synthesizer
| From: | Sai Emrys <saizai@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 19, 2009, 19:34 |
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@...> wrote:
> This is, unfortunately, orders of magnitude more difficult to do than speech
> synthesis for a specific language. :-(
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> I could write a lengthy essay on why this is impossible (or at least a
> Herculean task), but the short version is as follows: 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.
I'd be interested to read such an essay.
- Sai