Tuesday, February 3, 2009

New Text-To-Speech Translation Gadget from IBM

IBM has come up with a strategy to give voice to a computer. It may be very long-ago idea. But this time IBM has tried to make it sound more human. In order to do that they have made the computer to use ordinary spoken paroxysms like “umm…”, “err…”, and even sighs. This makes people hard to differentiate between human speech and computer speech (I hope so).

This technology was invented to use in GPS systems like telephone help lines, satellite navigation systems and even on cameras or iPods. This new technology is called as "generating paralinguistic phenomena via markup in text-to-speech syntheses". When this technology is installed in your mobile, it is possible to have your mobile read a SMS text message for you; and in voice that is more humane.

So, you can soon expect a car like “Knight Rider”, which can have a conversation, share jokes, laugh, etc.

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