http://ask.metafilter.com/56945/Neural-networks-learning-how-to-talk/ Comments on Ask MetaFilter post Neural networks learning how to talk Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:17:24 -0800 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:17:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/56945/Neural-networks-learning-how-to-talk I'm looking for a mp3 of a computer learning how to talk. <br /><br /> 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).<br> <br> I sort of think it might have been a Bell Labs project? post:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.56945 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:07:22 -0800 aubilenon speech ai resolved http://ask.metafilter.com/56945/Neural-networks-learning-how-to-talk#856114 It was probably Sejnowski's <a href="http://www.cnl.salk.edu/ParallelNetsPronounce/nettalk.mp3">NETtalk.</a> comment:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.56945-856114 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:17:24 -0800 logicpunk http://ask.metafilter.com/56945/Neural-networks-learning-how-to-talk#856244 Yes! That is it! Hooray for The Internet! Hooray for logicpunk! comment:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.56945-856244 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:11:49 -0800 aubilenon http://ask.metafilter.com/56945/Neural-networks-learning-how-to-talk#856752 That's awesome. It sounds like Aphex Twin. comment:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.56945-856752 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:17:11 -0800 blag