[X3D-Public] Integrating Speech Synthesis into X3D Systems
cbullard at hiwaay.net
cbullard at hiwaay.net
Thu Feb 25 07:09:59 PST 2010
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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