News The Blizzard Challenge 2008

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/16/the-blizzard-challenge-2008/1

The Blizzard Challenge is a project set up by the University of Edinburgh aimed at creating a speech synthesiser as close to human speech as is possible - and you can get involved.

 

When i saw the name blizzard i immediately thought of WoW

 

im just doing it now and im pretty darn impressed with some of them!

 

my mum could really use some of this. i have been trying for ages to find something good for her to use, we have just set the screen to use 400% zoom at the moment.
Ill sign up and see how good these people are

 

WOT... DU... U... MEEN... THIS... NOT... NOR... MAL... SPEEK?

 

One of the downsides of this is that the dalek/hawking ones are actually faster to listen to. Anyone who has to use these things generally spends a lot of time trying to make their computer interaction faster - that is, less painfully slow.

Next time I hear Jaws say "Page has three frames and one hundred and three links" I'm going to go to Yahoo and start laying about myself with a baseball bat.

Tab, tab, tab, tab, tab...

 

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