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Text to Speech
Text to speech is a fairly new technology that has been gaining a wide eminence in the IT world. Useful in fields such as education, disability services, computer interface, telecommunication, and consumer products, text-to-speech converts written text to digital audio read by human voices.
How do these converters transfer written text into spoken work though?
A text to speech converter is based on concatenation of diaphones. Thus, it takes a list of phonemes as input with prosodic information, that is to say the duration of phonemes and a piecewise linear description of the tone, and produces speech samples on 16-bit linear sampling frequencies from a database of diaphones. This is then assembled together by the software to form the spoken word based on the text input provided.
From an educational perspective, the technology of converting text to speech could be considered an amazing chance to teach young children how to read. It could provide means for children to practice reading at home without the aid of a human teacher. What is good about this kind of technology is that it produces sounds very similar to human voice so that, ideally, you would not recognize any difference between the two. In addition to that text to speech converters can also help one learn a different language by having it read sentences so one can hear the proper pronunciation. This of course requires very well developed language models; otherwise it can teach a totally wrong way of speaking a foreign language. This makes it possible to learn another language, or two, from the comfort of one's own home for moderately low cost compared to expensive language software.
Furthermore, it assists people with disabilities by helping those who are visually impaired or blind, people who suffer from reading difficulties such as dyslexia, or people who have concentration problems. It also is quite handy to listen to books or similar while commuting or during household chores making ones day a bit more efficient.
What to Know About Garmin GPS Text to Speech
Garmin GPS text to speech has to be a phrase that you've heard or read if you're in the market for an automotive GPS device. But what exactly does "text to speech" mean? Do you need it? And how much is it going to set you back? To answer these questions, let's look at the current state of the 2010 GPS marketplace. But first, let's define "text to speech".
Text to Speech
Text to speech means exactly that. The GPS device tells you the street names of the streets you need to turn on. You see, used to be, GPS devices only said, "Turn here", or something to that effect. As these devices got more refined, and as their capacities grew, manufacturers started including the capability of naming the street you're to turn on. So, instead of saying, "Take a right," you're Garmin GPS text to speech device would say, "Take a right on Downing Street."
I'm sure you can see how unbelievably useful that would be if you're in alien territory. And, if you're not, why would you need a GPS in the first place?
Garmin GPS Text to Speech
So, text to speech is something that you especially want, right? Sure! A few years ago, however, this functionality would have cost extra. However, due to intense competition between manufacturers such as Garmin, Tom Tom, and Magellan, among others, the features you get with even the most basic model have augmented dramatically.
Now, it's almost inpossible to purchase a GPS without text to speech. As a matter of fact, at the time of the writing of this page, early 2011, Amazon only sells two GPS devices that don't have Garmin GPS text to speech. (Counting only Garmin devices, of course.)
How Much?
So, having said all that, you're really not going to have to spend your inheritance to get this really expedient capability. As a matter of fact, now plenty of other great features such as Bluetooth, multi-routing, and real time traffic reporting and appropriate routing are within reach of anyone who want to purchase a GPS.
How to Improve the "Text to Speech" Software
There are many services from companies offering 'text to speech' . You can copy/paste paragraph from the web or MS word, then click a button convert the text to speech and you are able to hear it almost immediately. Most of these services allow you to save the converted file in various formats such as MP3, WAV, etc. Some services are provided as online services, while others are software that should be downloaded and installed onto a PC or Mac.
Why I think it's important to improve it?
Unlike the past where voices produced out of the 'text of speech' program resembles much of a 'robot's sound', today they are to all intense purposes natural but they lack the 'variety' of available sounds that exists for each word. What do I mean by that?
Normally when you take a class in foreign language you learn the 'high language'. This is the language that you can hear in the news, schools, universities and the pronunciation is always according to the rules of the standard language – in other words the 'proper' pronunciation.
However, this is not the kind of language you will hear on the street, shops, bus or railway stations – we are talking colloquialisms here. It is very frustrating to learn a new language at your home country, and thinking at the end of the course that you have a good command of the basic language but then at the main railway station, when asking for a ticket ,the person at the counter say something and you are not able to understand. Why is this so ? I mentioned before the issue of 'high language' and 'low language'.
'High language' normally related to social parameters such as: education, profession, income but in some countries like in Germany there are also dialects related to specific region. If you learn German then you know it's easier to understand people in the north then in the south.
Now back to the 'text of speech' - today when you enter any text in foreign language you can hear it dictated by a man or by a woman, however, there is no option to hear the same phrase in different dialects.
In addition, people in special mood or circumstances (sickness, anger, excitement) speak in different tone so it's often very hard to understand them. A good example for that is french. If you learned french then you know that it has nasal sounds that you pronounce using your nose so in case that you speak with someone french and he is a bit sick (imagine he has a cold ) it will be very difficult to comprehend and interpret what he is saying.
And not only this, we all know that if you speak face to face with a native speaker it's different then to speak with him at the phone.
To conclude, If in the available text to speech software you can enter a text and to hear it once in a normal mode, then pronounced by people at different ages, then pronounced by people on the phone, or on the street with sounds of vehicles in the background or in other locations where you have echo or different kinds of noises in the background or considering speech in different moods and situations as I mentioned above or even pronunciation by different ethnic groups living in a specific country then the provided software would be very valuable.