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Software Mimics Person’s Voice : NPR

By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on March 3, 2010


via: Software Mimics Person’s Voice : NPR.

This has been one of the main tech topics of the week from the Oprah Show to NPR as software developers in Edinborough, Scotland from a company called CereProc have refined voice recognition software to emulate the voice of Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert lost his voice to the effects of cancer surgery and spoke through CereProc’s recreation of his voice on Oprah this week.

Listen to this NPR story which delves more into the process used by CereProc to create these more acurate voices and some examples of their results.

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I think that they have come closer to achieving  the essence of some of the voices but I do not think they are there yet. Intonation is still not on the mark and the voices have that autotone quality. But to give a voice back to someone who has been robbed of specch is a wonderful thing. What do you think?

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Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator

Nancy Raskauskas,Founder, Owner and Developer of the Cosmic Networks, is also the Middle and Upper School Computer Teacher at Worcester Preparatory School on the eastern Shore of Maryland. Nancy is a very creative teacher and a telented Graphic Artist. With a background in language arts and art, along with her talent for technology, Mrs. Raskauskas inspires students to move forward in computer skills. The winner of many state and national awards for her work with technology and children, Mrs. Raskauskas was named the Maryland Technology Teacher of the Year and has received national awards from the Computer Learning Foundation. Her writing appears in a number of web sites and publications.

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