In early 2014 experts from Acapela Group, innovator in speech solutions, started work on a 3-year program on French singing text to speech. An ambitious project funded by the ANR (The French National ...

'Duet of one' possible with hand-controlled voice synthesizer Date: February 19, 2012 Source: University of British Columbia Summary: New technology makes it possible for a person to speak or sing ...

If you listened to the National Weather Service Weather Radio in the US about 25 years ago, you’ll no doubt remember [Perfect Paul], one of the synthesized voices used to read current conditions and ...

Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...

In a few years, you could be listening to an album of new songs featuring a duet between Elvis and Kurt Cobain. No, the two never cut a record together, but engineers and computer programmers are ...

Like your fingerprint, your voice is unique. Your vocal signature has a fundamental connection with your body, emerging from an idiosyncratic mix of your physiology, biology, habits, and personal and ...

Whether it's people who can't speak, or musicians looking for a new way of expressing themselves, both may end up benefiting from an experimental new gesture-to-voice synthesizer. The system was ...

Speech and voice disorders are common in individuals with Parkinson's disease. New research published in the International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders found that a ...

Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation? Mind recorder: A sheet of electrodes picks up electrical activity ...