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- arleym, on 03/04/2009, -3/+69EXTERMINATE.
- trollick, on 03/04/2009, -4/+47"if an e-book could be turned into an audiobook, authors should get an extra fee from each sale"
*****. And if a parent reads a book to his kid, I guess the author should be paid too? If not what is the ***** difference? - inactive, on 03/04/2009, -10/+46"you ain't my bitch *****, buy yo own damn fries!"
Every text-to-speech software should sound like Obama. - DoodleMaster, on 03/04/2009, -3/+32That's the same kind of argument they made about flight.
you comment would have instead been
simple. bird=bird human=human
The implication being a bird is meant to fly and a human isn't.
In lieu of the way your statement says humans are meant to sound human while computers can't because they are not human.
It's not impossible, nor is it as "simple" as you state it to be. - netneutrality, on 03/04/2009, -4/+27This is a pretty good voice: http://www.ivona.com/say/g9PZeZgn
- ianryerson, on 03/03/2009, -5/+19I'm not sure if it would be creepier to have a computer style voice coming out of my computer or a human type voice....
- inactive, on 03/04/2009, -2/+15 Just as long as it doesn't sound like a Dalek or like GLaDOS. :p
- sjbdallas, on 03/04/2009, -6/+19Could be the lack of vocal cords and breathing.
- googooly, on 03/04/2009, -0/+12You wouldn't say it if you were blind. Its like I can run and say " I don't want to sit on wheelchair ! "
- inactive, on 03/04/2009, -23/+35***** Mr. BabyMan.
- lowdose, on 03/05/2009, -1/+13I applaud your decision for such things as sexual intercourse with Mr. BabyMan. Though personally (and no offense to Mr. BabyMan) that would not be my choice.
- RG13, on 03/04/2009, -2/+13You spelled EXTERMINATE wrong
- unixfg, on 05/23/2009, -1/+12In that case, the author should obviously be paid twice; two people got to hear it.
- DoodleMaster, on 03/04/2009, -1/+12I disagree that computers will "never" be able to replicate this. Not any time soon, but with advances in artificial technology it doesn't seem impossible.
- PeppermintPig, on 03/04/2009, -1/+11Agreed. Vocal synthesization could use some work, but the main issue is interpretation, which requires a robust AI to process what it's reading.
Interfacing is always a big hurdle for AI, but it has more to do with the programmer's skill to create good interfaces.
I think you will see this in your lifetime, assuming the economy isn't obliterated.
I'm intrigued by the concept of quantum evolution computers which don't have the 'mass production' problem associated with qubits. Compression based AI, even without the use of quantum technology, could still be an impressive step forward. - TSCheredar, on 03/04/2009, -1/+11More fees if a computer voices my PURCHASED book via kindle? Yet another reason I don't understand this backwards device...
- zwaldowski, on 03/04/2009, -0/+10I'd be pissed if we spent years and years of voice research to get human intonation on computers, only to make them sound like computers.
- aufte, on 03/04/2009, -0/+9He came up with ideas for a hundred movies in one weekend! 96 of them starring Adam Sandler!
- babyheadout, on 03/04/2009, -3/+12I could go for one of those female PA voices in old-school sci-fi, especially that one that sounds like she's having an orgasm when she's counting down before 'critical core meltdown'.
- elnerdo, on 03/05/2009, -1/+9For this same reason, no one has yet been able to solve the problem of 'digital music'.
- ozydingo, on 03/05/2009, -0/+7"Also, human vocal chords allow sound to resonate producing underlying tones that give human voices more depth and warmth, unlike digital sound which is more or less comprised of single tones"
The underlying tones you speak of are called harmonics, and they are reasonably modeled even in the more primitive speech synthesizers. When it comes to making computer speech sound more human, natural (and varied) co-articulartion and prosody are the largest inadequacies.
And if your sampling rate is high enough, it doesn't really matter if it's digital or analog as far as your perception is concerned. - ZigVicious, on 03/04/2009, -0/+7They're pre-recorded.
GPS boxes only say so many things. - serif69, on 03/04/2009, -3/+10I sure like being inside this fancy computer.
- brownsound00, on 03/05/2009, -0/+7Did i just get ivona rolled?
- ChadFM, on 03/04/2009, -3/+10Hatsune Miku sounds real enough to me...
- rolf, on 03/04/2009, -0/+7"computer sounds are converted from digital signals...they are not 100% analog signals (like human voices)"
Ah, I see. That's why they never were able to record the human voice to a digital format. Um.... and we're still stuck with 8-tracks and cassettes. - soupeh, on 03/05/2009, -0/+7You're talking about what has been named the 'uncanny valley'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley - macmcraeart, on 03/04/2009, -2/+8let me guess. because computers still don't understand what the hell they're reading.
- ptFoe, on 03/05/2009, -0/+63 times because god is always in the room to make sure Authors are accordingly
- javiero, on 03/04/2009, -3/+9how come AWESOME-O sounded just perfect?
- leif77, on 03/05/2009, -2/+7Except that the object in question IS an extension of the limitations of humanity, as are the space shuttle and submarine. And, those limitations are expanding every day.
- gumballer, on 03/04/2009, -4/+9How about a nice game of chess?
- spyd3rweb, on 03/05/2009, -0/+5Perl scripts written to grab the top stories off Reddit and submit them to digg can speak???
- inactive, on 03/05/2009, -2/+7to tie stereos together?
- GeeksSpeakFont, on 03/03/2009, -5/+10i definitely don't want my kindle to read to me!
- robbiedo, on 03/04/2009, -2/+7If you have Mac OS X 10.5, go to the system preferences, and turn on text to speech. Use the "Alex" voice. Select a "hot key" to activate text to speech.
Select a chunk of text in your browser, and hit the hot key. It is pretty impressive for a built in function. - ilgaz, on 03/05/2009, -0/+5I gave up writing long comments on this junkhole because of the massive abuse. If I have something informative to say, I go to slashdot instead.
He should do the same too. - sponeil, on 03/04/2009, -0/+4You do if you're driving and don't want to pay ridiculous prices for the audio books (this is probably the main reason some people want to kill the Kindle's text-to-speech feature).
- sageerrant, on 03/05/2009, -0/+4Some are actually password-locked in exactly that way.
There's always a way around it. - inactive, on 03/04/2009, -0/+4Dis Yo Baby?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpSErM03n4 - inactive, on 03/05/2009, -0/+4I don't know why you're getting dugg down, unless all of these 'normal' people don't want the handicapped becoming intelligent and rising up against them
- petebot, on 03/04/2009, -2/+6The humans are dead. The humans are dead. We used poisonous gases, and we poisoned their asses.
- inactive, on 03/05/2009, -0/+4No, I want to play global thermonuclear war
- WinMacLin, on 03/04/2009, -2/+6Computers don't sound human because they don't understand what they are saying. To them it is just text. They need to be programmed to understand what they are reading in context so the pitch, speed and other speech factors can be altered to reflect the meaning of the words.
We're close, but the last hurdle is going to be the most difficult. - sponeil, on 03/04/2009, -0/+4There's actually a psychology principle that states that the closer something gets to human, while still being detectable as non-human, the creepier it gets. I can't remember what it's called, but one of the GPU Gems 3 articles mentions it as one of the problems with attempting to render human faces with as much realism as possible.
- jiminizer, on 03/04/2009, -1/+5and DESERT you
- Culero, on 03/05/2009, -0/+4dugg for zombies being part of the valley
- Terasiel, on 03/04/2009, -2/+6Hello and again welcome to the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one.
- crilen007, on 03/05/2009, -0/+3No sorry. It is more the lack of knowing how to 'feel' words.
- brownsound00, on 03/05/2009, -0/+3What's the point of posting tl:dr? What did you achieve except for displaying your lack of focus to the digg community? Can people really not sit and read a 5 minute article anymore?
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