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A cynical yet secular shiny retrogamer, thread ressurector and fan of the word "gay".
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Reged: 01/28/12
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Re: Old fashioned "roboty" speech synth. What should it be forced to say?
05/20/12 12:01 AM
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I find it interesting how it stopped evolving for about 20 years. In the late 70s/early 80s it was the cool new tech, then capturing and storing digital audio became dirt cheap and it was way easier to just sample whatever you needed a computer to say. It's only in the last 10-12 years or so that advancements in voice synthesis have started to pick up again.
I've noticed that too. It was that brief period of time that PCM samples made more sense than having to code and engineer voice synthesis hardware.
And now we have Vocaloids! It's not perfect synthesized singing but it is pretty dang musical. With faster processors and cheap RAM and storage in general as well as further research into how speech works the results are quite amazing today. There are already digital actor and crowd simulations ("Massive", for instance). Totally synthetic actors in the digital realm may lead to robots that are able to transcend that uncanny valley. And soon we'll be surrounded by replicants.
In seven years it will be 2019. ;-)
But there will always be a place for that chilling evil robo-voice. "Berzerk" and "Gorf" wouldn't be the same without the oldskool speech hardware.
--Bekki
Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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