Computational Linguistics
Robert and Michael
Links:
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-artificial-muscle-universal-turing-machine.html
http://www.dossier-andreas.net/software_architecture/fsm.html
Formal Grammars & Chomsky Hierarchy
- Type 0 - Recursively Enumerable
- Abstraction: Creativity
- Turning Machine
- Type 1 - Context Sensitive
- Abstraction: Spoken or Written Language
- Linear Bounded Turing Machine
- Abstraction: Creativity
- Turning Machine
- Abstraction: Spoken or Written Language
- Linear Bounded Turing Machine
Formal Grammars & Chomsky Hierarchy
- Type 2 - Context Free
- Abstraction: Programming Languages
- Pushdown Automata
- Type 3 - Regular
- Abstraction: Craigslist Search Strings
- Finite State Machine
Synthesizer Technologies
- Concatenative
- Formant
- Articulatory
Concatenative
Stringing together parts of recorded speech.
3 main types:
Unit Selection
Diphone
Domain-specific
Unit Selection
Large database of Utterances:
Phones
Diphones
Half-phones
Syllables
Morphemes
Words
Phrases
Sentences
Diphone
Minimal speech database of all
diphones (sound-to-sound transitions)
Domain-Specific
Transit schedules
Weather reports
Text Normalization
Text is full of heteronyms, numbers, and abbreviations
Need to normalise for phonetic representation
"My latest project is to learn how to better project my voice"
Language is Confusing
Praat
Meet Siri
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