I've only heard snippets
of the synthetic voice, and I'm not sure if I'll adjust to its patter.
The quality
of synthetic voice rendering on tablets and desktops is generally quite poor, for one.
Not exact matches
In a hotel next door, Aryesh Mukherjee, a physics graduate student at Harvard University, was explaining how he built, with the help
of rubber glove - like material, a
synthetic voice box that could imitate a range
of birdsongs.
High - flying
synthetic being The Vision (
voice of Jarvis, Paul Bettany, in a whole new role), meanwhile, is something else altogether.
Based on a single character design by renowned artist Huke, and
voiced by the
synthetic diva Hatsune Miku, this PSP title certainly looks like a bit
of a beast from the East.
The music too mirrors the duality
of the art design, composed
of elements both acoustic and
synthetic, like an upright piano playing as a
voice synthesizer belts out the melody
of an old fashioned operetta.
In their videos and installation work, the artists, who have been collaborating since the 1980s, employ a kind
of experimental dramaturgy: stilted and slowed down acting, a recurring cast
of amateur actors, manikins,
synthetic voices, and more.
In this two - screen video installation Elizabeth Price brings together disparate elements — text, image,
synthetic voice and a stark, percussive soundtrack — in a dense and complex exploration
of collective emotion, performance and mechanised production.
Intended as «a functional copy
of that person,» Profile (all works 2016; «Profile» was also the exhibition title) is composed
of three unexhibited elements: a full - body photogrammetry scan, audio recordings
of the subject made with the intention
of producing a
synthetic voice, and a contract that formalizes the subject's surrender
of the intellectual property and personality rights belonging to these representational
Through the image
of a never - setting sun and chorus
of synchronised
synthetic voices, the film conveys a sense
of being constantly switched - on.
Long tubes cut through the space, pumping fluids around the installation, accompanied by the
synthetic sound
of Cleopatra's ethereal
voice.
This follows Google's release, along with a team
of researchers from the University
of California at Berkeley,
of findings in December that using WaveNet with Tactotron - 2 neural networks delivered
synthetic voices that sound more humanlike.
Cortana the
voice assistant is named after another Cortana — a character in the Halo video game series, a
synthetic intelligence that assists the main character through most
of the games in the series.