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The article presents innovative computing systems that turn text into realistic speech that could help the ill, direct lost drivers and make video games more absorbing. It presents problem solving designs by companies such as SVOX who is trying to reduce the robotic sound produced by many products b...

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Publicado en:	Economist Vol. 380; no. 8496; p. 10
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Economist Newspaper Limited 9/23/2006
Materias:	Technological innovations Natural language processing Speech synthesis Speech processing systems Human-computer interaction Computer input-output equipment
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Sumario:	The article presents innovative computing systems that turn text into realistic speech that could help the ill, direct lost drivers and make video games more absorbing. It presents problem solving designs by companies such as SVOX who is trying to reduce the robotic sound produced by many products by developing new algorithms to control the accentuation, phrasing, pitch and rhythm of synthesized speech.