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From: alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White)
Subject: Speaking In Tongues - Was IBM ICSS and Custom Voice
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 22:39:12 GMT
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In : <Cy6nsM.5nMv@hawnews.watson.ibm.com>
orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson) wrote:

>ICSS is totally non-trained, that is, it is speaker-independent.  
>About a year ago, I wrote an ICSS demo called Speaking In Tongues.  
>
>I had 15 common phrases translated into 8 different languages 
>(including Chinese).  Then I created the grammars and addendum
>dictionary for the foreign phrases.  The demo allows the user 
>to select the From and To language (like "From English to Chinese").
>Then they can say one of the 15 phrases in
>the From language, and hear it back in the To language.
>
>It demos quite well and native speakers love it!

I don't know whether public pleas could influence its being 
posted to an FTP site but I, for one, would love to hear it. 

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