Hi, Well I'm not impressed at all. It suffer from the good old problem with difon speech. He speaks like he has afacy, or something. The music in the voice, and the rythmics are terrible.
But I have to say that the words them selves are pronounced beautifully nice and clear. It's the intire sentences that are intonized very bad. Best regards Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 5:50 PM Subject: Re: Virtual weather man > Hi Peter. This sounds very interesting! It could be better than humans! > Loll. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Scanlon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:21 AM > Subject: Virtual weather man > > >> > Televirtual unveils a Virtual TV Weatherman >> > >> > By Submitter: Televirtual >> > >> > Working in collaboration with Britain's top speech scientists and the >> > BBC's weather graphic suppliers , Metra, Televirtual proudly announces >> > the world's first synthetic broadcaster. >> > >> > Whilst many of today's small screen personalities are arguably >> > artificial, advanced content pioneers Televirtual, have now produced >> > one which is certifiably so. >> > >> > Televirtual's UK Media Lab has just given birth to METman , a virtual >> > weather reporter/forecaster, whose entire performance is generated >> > automatically from a few lines of text-based data issued as a >> > meteorological summary, and accompanied by a weather map update. >> > >> > METman doesn't even need a script. >> > >> > In the final application , raw field-entry data, in the form of facts >> > and figures will be fed into the system, which automatically draws >> > from a lexicon of appropriate phrases, to produce a narrative >> > description of events past, and those to come. This text is then fed >> > into METvoice the first ever artificial voice or TTS (Text-to-Speech) >> > engine, to be custom-built to broadcast standards. >> > >> > The human vocal model for METvoice was Televirtual boss and founder, >> > Tim Child, a broadcaster and former TV newsman. >> > >> > Modern speech engines are created by recording up to 30 hours of >> > dictated speech, but by capturing Tim's speaking patterns as well as >> > words and phrases, Televirtual were able to 'fine-tune' the new engine >> > to a performance level unheard of to date.. >> > >> > The new speech engine has further powerful features. Operating as part >> > of Televirtual's award-winning RAP animation system, METvoice features >> > a powerful XML-style mark up language stream, triggering lip-synch >> > animations, and controlling and dictating the 3d animated METman' s >> > moods, expressions, gestures, and screen positions. >> > >> > Whilst the new voice is still being improved upon, the early results >> > are impressive. ' Unless you were aware or suspected it, you would not >> > normally be able to detect METman's vocal performance as anything >> > other than the real thing,' said Tim. >> > >> > Further 'broadcast' voices are now planned, and the breakthrough is by >> > no means limited to weather forecasting. Gaming channels and Quiz TV >> > variants could also employ the system to operate virtual presenters in >> > virtual sets , at a fraction of the cost of conventional presentation >> > methods. >> > >> > But the big market for such synthetic voice and character creation >> > applications is probably in the Home of the near Future. >> > >> > Installed in domestic television set top boxes (STBs) , 3d ' >> > announcers ' will be able to present a personalised information >> > service tailored to individual requirements. >> > >> > Such 'homecasters ' would be able to advise on TV viewing schedules, >> > read the news and weather on demand, and trawl the internet on request. >> > >> > >> > In disability scenarios, they will be able to read incoming emails to >> > the blind, and could 'sign' to the deaf or provide lip-readable >> > augmented information to the hard of hearing, whilst the >> > speech-impaired might use them to make phone calls. >> > >> > more details from >> > >> www.televirtual.com >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. 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