Comments on the Text to Speech "algorithm"

[marc]

Hello,

I made this remark at the http://rmll.info last summer in Nantes.

I you have Text to Speech (TTS), the "old" way is to invent some 
mathematical function and to generate a "sound" which is "close" (in 
Hausdorf distance?) to the spoken words.

But these mathematical formulas date from times when computers didn't 
have the possibilities to contain about 60.000 MP3s from a human 
speaker. If we could organise it that way, the concatanation of the 
words would be better than the mathematical contruction.  And if you 
learned how to make a higher sound at the end of a question, you should 
be able to adapt the mp3 too.

Problem is: we will have to throw away a lot of work by 
mathematicians...  Mathematicians never had patents (the Greek would be 
rich ;-).  But we throw away a lot of stuff in computer science ...


Marc




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