[X3D-Public] Integrating Speech Synthesis into X3D Systems

[cbullard at hiwaay.net]

I read through the W3C spec last night.  It has power.  I've not  
tested any of the implementations.

I don't recall any VRML-based engines that worked with speech  
synthesis other than the Blaxxun work.  The speech engines for that  
aren't very good but adequate.  Chat applications are obvious but what  
I think has commercial application are scripted systems built to the  
left of the document libraries... so to speak.

The layers above WebGL are more important to X3D than WebGL.  It's a  
set of services to composers although certainly some will compose  
directly in it.  It is the composition layers that are ripe to be  
expanded.

len


Quoting "John A. Stewart" <alex.stewart at crc.ca>:

> Len;
>
> I think speech is an interesting area; FreeWRL did use the apple osx  
> "say" command, and via the FreeWRL midi interface, one can  
> manipulate any soundclip with professional midi tools.
>
> I'm not focusing on the "say" interface in FreeWRL, as there are  
> some nuisances with using it, and it is not platform independent.
>
> I had prototyped a speech interface where I  could say "Viewpoint"  
> "Left" etc, but the issue there was that my accent did not match the  
> algorithm! If I tried to say things like a Californian, I had better  
> luck, but overhearing me one night my wife was left wondering where  
> the good looking blond-haired blue-eyed surfboard carrying guy  was...
>
>
> Anyway,  fun stuff. JohnS.
>
>
> On 24-Feb-10, at 7:33 PM, Len Bullard wrote:
>
>> What would be the impact on the utility of real-time 3D if SSML were
>> integrated into simple X3D avatar authoring utilities?
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-speech-synthesis11-20100223/
>>
>> For dispatch systems, user interfaces should include animated warnings.
>> Voice synthesis would be perfect because then it is authored for rewriting.
>> Rerecording is always more expensive than rewriting, so even if the eventual
>> piece is replaced by a human reader, when developing the speech, speech
>> synthesis can do for the written text what midi does for musical
>> composition.  Better development, better lifecycle, better maintenance and
>> finally, better upgrades and adaptation of the original speeches into new
>> contexts.
>>
>> len
>>
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