Neural networks learning how to talk

February 13, 2007 4:07 PM

I'm looking for a mp3 of a computer learning how to talk.

My CS professor played us a clip of a neural network learning how to turn text into speech. It starts out just babbling and eventually figures out stuff like spaces between words and so on. I think it's being trained on another synthesizer, and was working at the phonetic level (rather than outputting PCM data).

I sort of think it might have been a Bell Labs project?

posted by aubilenon to computers & internet (3 comments total)

It was probably Sejnowski's NETtalk.
posted by logicpunk at 4:17 PM on February 13, 2007

Yes! That is it! Hooray for The Internet! Hooray for logicpunk!
posted by aubilenon at 6:11 PM on February 13, 2007

That's awesome. It sounds like Aphex Twin.
posted by blag at 8:17 AM on February 14, 2007