Comments on: MIT’s Friendly Robotic Weatherman http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/ Specialization is for Insects. Thu, 24 May 2012 16:31:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peter http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/comment-page-1/#comment-2205 Peter Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:46:39 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/#comment-2205 Thought you might be interested in this: http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6173839.html Technology that converts voice to text. SpinVox, one of the companies offering the sevice, has some test numbers you can try out, they are: English : +44 1212 808081 French : +33 1 76 66 05 01 Spanish : +34 938 02 12 21 German : +49 5112 60982191 It's pretty fun, I tried a few in English..... it gets the numbers and common words right, but don't try reading it literature. I wrote a little something about it here: http://www.marinelayer.com/#00000011.txt (my blog's still in beta test stage, so it's a little rough) Thought you might be interested in this:

http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6173839.html

Technology that converts voice to text.

SpinVox, one of the companies offering the sevice, has some test numbers you can try out, they are:

English : +44 1212 808081

French : +33 1 76 66 05 01

Spanish : +34 938 02 12 21

German : +49 5112 60982191

It’s pretty fun, I tried a few in English….. it gets the numbers and common words right, but don’t try reading it literature.

I wrote a little something about it here:
http://www.marinelayer.com/#00000011.txt
(my blog’s still in beta test stage, so it’s a little rough)

]]> By: hthth http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/comment-page-1/#comment-2029 hthth Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:48:06 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/#comment-2029 Yeah. The research emphasis is probably not on synthesis, and it shouldn't, really. The main reason that synthesizers still sound so bad is because the backend intelligence driving them isn't advanced enough. Yeah. The research emphasis is probably not on synthesis, and it shouldn’t, really. The main reason that synthesizers still sound so bad is because the backend intelligence driving them isn’t advanced enough.

]]> By: The Man http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/comment-page-1/#comment-1994 The Man Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:48:52 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/#comment-1994 Yes. That was a little surprising to me. But the interesting thing is that I did some experimentation and the variety of commands it will accept is actually impressive. John Yes. That was a little surprising to me. But the interesting thing is that I did some experimentation and the variety of commands it will accept is actually impressive.

John

]]> By: hthth http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/comment-page-1/#comment-1985 hthth Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:13:23 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/07/mits-friendly-robotic-weatherman/#comment-1985 Hah, that's great. I've always wanted to put up an agent like that on my workstation at home. There are so many open source projects that anyone can use to do similar stuff at home. I'm a bit dissapointed in the quality of their speech synthesizer though, it sounds like the synthesizers I tried there around 1994! Hah, that’s great.
I’ve always wanted to put up an agent like that on my workstation at home. There are so many open source projects that anyone can use to do similar stuff at home.

I’m a bit dissapointed in the quality of their speech synthesizer though, it sounds like the synthesizers I tried there around 1994!

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