2008-03-12

Speech Synthesis

I built this Speech Synthesis kit when I was a kid. It sort of worked - it made vowel-like sounds. It was quite fun.

Here's a speech synthesizer singing, "Daisy, Daisy", ala Hal 9000. I believe this bit of technology is actually what inspired that moment in the film 2001.

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  1. Computer voice (singing) synthesis very hot in Japan, like this one for last couple of months. I guess it is a little different from "voice synthesis" as it is using something called Frequency-domain Singing Articulation Splicing and Shaping, which based on real singer, but special technology of putting them together.

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  2. BTW, this is Hideki, just so you know :-)

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