Re: IPA speech synthesizer

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.

/BP 8^)>
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