eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) (05/05/87)
For future purposes, I will be placing a copy of my speech examples
lists on the ames-aurora.arpa host. (Don't check yet.) I've posted
them here and for the comp.ai group on usenet. In the future, I
will separate the ACKs as below for possible liability reasons and to
credit the group as a whole. I will update yearly. The last addition
is particularly interesting. See that type of "writing" has a use after
all.
FYI, aurora is an upgrade of a system which originally did speech synthesis
on an old V*x system, so I only think it appropriate it goes there.
Happy hunting with this little bit of `network memory.'
P.S. I was asked for more Japanese examples, so if anyone is Japan is
working on the subject, I would appreciate examples, I won't be going there
until Fall of 1988 (Cray User Group meeting and more). And this appears
to be a critical area.
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
"You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
"Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."
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Acknowledgements:
elman@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Elman)
mcguire@aero2.aero.org
minow%thundr.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM Martin Minow (ex-DECtalk developer)
Marc Majka <ames!seismo!ubc-vision!vision.ubc.cdn!majka>
Joseph_D._Becker.osbunorth@Xerox.COM
Stephen Slade@Yale.Arpa
Keith F. Lynch <KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU>
George Swetnam m06242%mwvm@mitre.ARPA
Erik A. Devereux <GV.DEVEREUX@A20.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
"In mud eels are, in tar none are".
grey day / grade A
euthanasia / youth in Asia
"Whats that up in the road" ahead / a head?
"Take off your hat and dloves"
and then ask them what you said. 99% of all people will insist that
you said the word "gloves".
I'd be happy if you could do the digits, including "Oh", and Yes/No.
Continuous digits, telephone quality, no training, male and female voice.
The problem is in distinguishing "oh" from "no".
Getting the alphabet (not "alpha", "bravo", but "aye", "bee") would
be nice, too.
I love you
Isle of View
I think you need at least one example in Chinese, and here's my favorite
(because I actually said it by mistake). The numbers after the words
are phonic "tones". What I meant to say was:
Wo(3) hen(3) xiang(3) shui(4)-jiao(4) -- I want to go to sleep
... but what I actually ended up saying was:
Wo(3) hen(3) xiang(4) shui(3)-jiao(3) -- I am like a boiled ravioli
"ice cream"/"I scream"
"beginning"/"big inning"
"soccer"/"sock her"
"its hardware problems are intermittent"/"it's hard where problems ..."
"attacks"/"a tax"
from Mark Twain:
"Good-bye God, I'm going to Missouri."/"Good, by God, I'm going to Missouri."
A notion of water/an ocean of water.
[New York accent only] An arm and a leg/a nominal egg.
Years ago at Bell Labs, I heard the following:
"Joe took mother's shoe bench out; she was waiting at my lawn."
With regard to difficult speech recognition problems, I just saw
variations of the following on the wall of a mens room, so credit goes
to anonymous students at the University of Texas:
``Our understanding of urine formation was clearly wrong.''
``Our understanding of your information was clearly wrong.''