From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 25 23:40:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E011A106573E for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F34C8FC1D for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3PNfRrT048823; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:40:20 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20090425234020.GA51120@thought.org> References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090424201644.GA69617@thought.org> <200904240438.07178.lists@jnielsen.net> <20090424231843.GA91766@thought.org> <20090425110859.f52460eb.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090425175749.7d4f1c62.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Andrew Gould , John Nielsen , Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:30 -0000 On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:08:36PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >You can do a lot with synthesized spoken language, but the > >human "voice perception apparatus" reacts to them differently > >than it does to a native (natural) voice, even if both say the > >same text. > > until someone will make speech synthetizer good enough ;) i spent several hours yesterday poking around at the natural-voice and the entirely synthetic methodology of spoken language. the first is tricky enough. the second method that emulates the vocal mechanics probably gets into complexity theory! so maybe in another 50-75 years... . gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php