SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Speech Synthesizer NEC C&C Foundation Awards 2009: C&C Prize to Dr. Fumitada Itakura, Prof. Ronald L. Rivest, Prof. Adi Shamir and Prof. Leonard M. Adleman  Oct 22, 2009 His approaches involved approximating vocal-tract characteristics using an all-pole digital-filter model, transmitting its filtering coefficients, and reproducing the original voice with a speech synthesizer. These methods enabled the speech signal data rate to be reduced to 1/10 to 1/20 of that for the pulse-code modulation (PCM) method, which transmits speech data using the direct digitization of speech waveforms. (JCN Network, Japan) * FEATURE : Blind masseur builds business online  Oct 20, 2009 Lus computer has a talking terminal X a speech synthesizer that converts text to speech. With hearing aids in both his ears, Lu digests the text and lines that appear on the display screen by listening to the computers voice. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World) Camera Innovations Heat up August  Aug 11, 2009 The new version has a smaller handheld unit and packs a built in speech synthesizer and will cost just under 20,000 yen (US$213). It will initially be available in Japan only. (Yahoo News -- Technology) Back to Telecom News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009