Comments on: Voices for entertainment and beyond http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/04/02/voices-for-entertainment-and-beyond/ Dedicated to the integrated study of music and language. Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:59:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: yaxu http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/04/02/voices-for-entertainment-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-586 yaxu Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:59:59 +0000 http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/04/02/voices-for-entertainment-and-beyond/#comment-586 Agreed. Non-photo-realistic rendering is common in computer graphics, why not non-realistic speech synthesis? Humans have described instrumental sounds with words for hundreds if not thousands of years, for example Canntaireachd in pipe music and Bol syllables in tabla music. With this in mind, creative use of techniques from speech synthesis does seem a largely untapped resource... Agreed. Non-photo-realistic rendering is common in computer graphics, why not non-realistic speech synthesis?

Humans have described instrumental sounds with words for hundreds if not thousands of years, for example Canntaireachd in pipe music and Bol syllables in tabla music. With this in mind, creative use of techniques from speech synthesis does seem a largely untapped resource…

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