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Keith D. Tyler <romulus@shore.net> wrote:
> Pirch has a function for text-to-speech conversion but requires that you
> already have the standard text-to-speech programs (or drivers or whatever)
> on your system. The function enables these programs to use the IRC
> information.
speech-to-text conversion would be more interesting. But as long as "play
record 5" takes a few seconds to consider for even mainframes, I doubt
that will come in reach soon :)

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segmentation.fault@core.dumped.org (Arnold Hendriks) writes:
>Keith D. Tyler <romulus@shore.net> wrote:
>> Pirch has a function for text-to-speech conversion but requires that you
>> already have the standard text-to-speech programs (or drivers or whatever)
>> on your system. The function enables these programs to use the IRC
>> information.
>speech-to-text conversion would be more interesting. But as long as "play
>record 5" takes a few seconds to consider for even mainframes, I doubt
>that will come in reach soon :)

I don't like to spam, but I have no idea where this response is coming
from.  There *is* an IRC program which does text to speech for IRC in
combination with moving pictures.  It's by an Australian company and is
called InterFace.

The company is www.hijinx.com.au

Rob
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Arnold Hendriks (segmentation.fault@core.dumped.org) wrote:
: speech-to-text conversion would be more interesting. But as long as "play
: record 5" takes a few seconds to consider for even mainframes, I doubt
: that will come in reach soon :)

Speech-to-text conversion progams are fairly common, though they are
probably pretty expensive and need to be calibrated to the individual
user. But lots of people who have lost the use of their hands/fingers to
type use speech-to-text converters to write books, term papers, etc.

Then of course there's Stephen Hawking, who writes books with his
handy eye-blink-to-text converter.

Now here's a damn silly idea: Get a speech-to-text converter, go on ircm
and have the person on the other end using a text-to-speech converter.

*ouch!* ..sorry.

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Robert Geraghty <cirgerag@dingo.cc.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> segmentation.fault@core.dumped.org (Arnold Hendriks) writes:
> >Keith D. Tyler <romulus@shore.net> wrote:
> >> Pirch has a function for text-to-speech conversion but requires that you
> >speech-to-text conversion would be more interesting. But as long as "play
> I don't like to spam, but I have no idea where this response is coming
> from.  There *is* an IRC program which does text to speech for IRC in

I said speech-to-text, not text-to-speech

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Keith D. Tyler (romulus@shore.net) mused:
: Arnold Hendriks (segmentation.fault@core.dumped.org) wrote:
: : speech-to-text conversion would be more interesting. But as long as "play
: : record 5" takes a few seconds to consider for even mainframes, I doubt
: : that will come in reach soon :)

: Speech-to-text conversion progams are fairly common, though they are
: probably pretty expensive and need to be calibrated to the individual
: user. But lots of people who have lost the use of their hands/fingers to
: type use speech-to-text converters to write books, term papers, etc.

: Then of course there's Stephen Hawking, who writes books with his
: handy eye-blink-to-text converter.

: Now here's a damn silly idea: Get a speech-to-text converter, go on ircm
: and have the person on the other end using a text-to-speech converter.

Not such a silly idea if you have plenty of cpu power at each end and want
to save bandwidth in between.  Lots of people have tried to compress actual
speech waveforms in real time and some of the results are pretty impressive
but to the best of my knowledge none come close to the efficiency of a speech
to text conversion.