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15.ai: Natural TTS with minimal data

15.ai/

15.ai: Natural high-quality faster-than-real-time text-to-speech synthesis with minimal data

• speech, tag
• voices, tag
• texttospeech, tag
• machine-learning, tag
• cartoon, tag
• ·3 years ago

Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Far Faster Than Sighted Persons? - Scientific American

scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blind-people-process/

• screen_readers, tag
• speech, tag
• brain, tag
• rate, tag
• speech_synthesis, tag
• ·4 years ago

Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On - danah boyd - Medium

medium.com/@zephoria/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on-8fe434e10630

• technology, tag
• culture, tag
• harassment, tag
• speech, tag
• award, tag
• ·4 years ago

Cboard - AAC Communication Board

app.cboard.io/

• accessibility, tag
• communication, tag
• webaudio, tag
• speech, tag
• cognitive, tag
• ·5 years ago

No, I Will Not Debate You

longreads.com/2018/09/18/no-i-will-not-debate-you/

• fascism, tag
• politics, tag
• communication, tag
• speech, tag
• deception, tag
• ·5 years ago

Losing your first language? Here’s how to rediscover your voice | Monika Schmid | Opinion | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/first-language-voice-mother-tongue-attrition-brexit

• speech, tag
• language, tag
• immigration, tag
• linguistics, tag
• ·6 years ago

How a new technology is changing the lives of people who cannot speak | News | The Guardian

theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/23/voice-replacement-technology-adaptive-alternative-communication-vocalid

The long read: Millions are robbed of the power of speech by illness, injury or lifelong conditions. Can the creation of bespoke digital voices transform their ability to communicate?

• speech, tag
• technology, tag
• communication, tag
• cancer, tag
• longread, tag
• ·6 years ago

readbeyond/aeneas

github.com/readbeyond/aeneas

aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment) http://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/

• speech, tag
• alignment, tag
• tts, tag
• python, tag
• nlp, tag
• ffmpeg, tag
• forced-alignment, tag
• text, tag
• audio, tag
• ·7 years ago

Lexicon Valley: Speech scientist Benjamin Munson on the stereotypical gay man’s voice.

slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2014/12/lexicon_valley_speech_scientist_benjamin_munson_on_the_stereotypical_gay.html

Affect a lisp, assume a lilt, and add a fair amount of flamboyance. Presto! Instant gay man’s voice. It’s a stereotype, to be sure, but is there...

• phonetics, tag
• speech, tag
• linguistics, tag
• podcast, tag
• stereotypes, tag
• patterns, tag
• ·9 years ago