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From: orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson)
Subject: Re: Speaking In Tongues - Was IBM ICSS and Custom Voice
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In article <alvinCy789D.BB1@netcom.com>, alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White) says:
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>In : <Cy6nsM.5nMv@hawnews.watson.ibm.com>
>orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson) wrote:
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>>ICSS is totally non-trained, that is, it is speaker-independent.  
>>About a year ago, I wrote an ICSS demo called Speaking In Tongues.  
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>>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.
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>>It demos quite well and native speakers love it!
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>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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>alvin@netcom.COM
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>Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
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I could post the demo but you'd need to purchase ICSS runtime environment
first...

Ora.
