4 Feb
2008
4 Feb
'08
11:53 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:33:42AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Sunday 03 February 2008 16:54, Scanning wrote:
> Pete,
>
> The SP0256 had the best sounding speech I think ( it uses twice as many
> speech sounds ( 128 allophones ? ) as the SC-01 only had 64 phonemes )).
59 Allophones plus 6 pauses, according to the datasheet.
How about the computer on Star Trek? Or the one on
Andromeda? Sexy female
voice would be good, particularly... :-)
Those are human voices, not even machine sequenced - just voice actors
(the Star Trek computer is Majel Barrett, for those that don't happen
to know). There have to be more computer-generated-voice "characters"
than just WOPR, right?
-ethan
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