Speech Synthesis (1984)

[FroggyMe6581]

Yes! I must get that ISA card for my 8088 XT! Speech Plus from 1983. Would be even more fun nowadays :)

[FroggyMe6581]

look at the awesome table!

[ElementalChaosLP]

HOLY SHIT! IT TALKS!

WITCHCRAFT!

[unapologeticmind]

LOL @ 5:24 ...

"That's right, I can type anything on this keyboard and it will then speak it"

...frozen facial expression...

{please dear God, don't let them follow up on my claim}

[thapizzakillr]

i was expecting sort of a Hatsune Miku sort of Engrish lol

[miviezgeneration]

i actually have a computer that can run that card!!!

[mspubquiz83]

Hunter S Thompson if he was a company man

[CANVECVIDEO]

Where did this tecnology as gone to? if it was that sophisticated in 1984! it should be far more advanced by now (2010) right? so where is it i don't see it!

[Ugotsta]

@CANVECVIDEO

It's more advanced by far these days, it's just not common knowledge yet.

This isn't the best example and some of our other videos make better use of the TTS voices, but this is demonstrating some TTS software using some of the commercial voices.

[Ugotsta]

@CANVECVIDEO

Actually, it's more advanced by far these days. Check out some of the videos we've released at ugotsta.com. We make heavy use of numerous commercial voices. They're pretty realistic, especially when used right.

[CANVECVIDEO]

@Ugotsta It would be nice if you had post it on youtube!

[Ugotsta]

@CANVECVIDEO

I did, actually, but the comments won't allow urls. It's available through my profile here. In fact, the majority of videos I've uploaded here make heavy use of TTS.

[akiratrooper]

@Ugotsta Gotta love blatant advertising.

[Ugotsta]

@akiratrooper If linking to a video that demonstrates modern advancements in the specified category is blatant advertising then by all means it was blatant advertising. But then, so would so would telling friends about the latest great app on iPhone be blatant advertising.

[flexicon1996]

I put my phoneme inside this thing in order to get the fricative sounds massaged out

[colinmaharaj]

A very important point about the past was that people had bigger imaginations. So now we look at Avatar the Movie and see flaws in the animation, back then - with Battlestar Gallactica the TV series, it was considered amazing animation, because people's minds create the missing parts in their brains.

[autisticotakugirl]

The computer voice reminds me of the one in the movie Wargames. Which came out in 1983, 1 year before this. Remember the WOPR? "Shall we play a game?" lol Sometimes it's hard to understand because of the computer accent. This was like over 25 years ago, and now we've got programs like Vocaloid, for those of us who can't sing. but want to make songs.

[LOveERDos]

@autisticotakugirl yes the mitic computer was imsai 8080 there was one in ebay from england that they sell for 3800 pounds

[kinmanyuen]

"massages them" lol......

[mastermime67]

didnt steven hawking used to use something like this?

[stormsirens2]

@mastermime67 Yeah.... but it was a program called DEC-talk

[skevosmavros]

A fascinating glimpse from the past. I remember being impressed by this sort of tech as a teen, and wondering where it would all lead.

I also love how at 8:25 he pulls out a (ISA?) circuit board the size of his forearm!

[bjjlyates]

Big deal! The TI-99 had this in 1980!

38-45 phonemes? The TI had over 100 "allophones" (smaller than a phoneme) to allow more natural sounding speech.

And Text to Speech was available through the TE-II cartridge or the "Text to Speech" diskette.

[Trance88]

That was some pretty cool stuff back in '84 I'm sure! That Epson computer he was typing on is commonly considered the first "laptop".

[fascistamericadotnet]

reasonably realistic infection is pushing it a bit.

[moonlitmurloc]

This text-to-speech engine RAPES the hell out of Microsoft Sam. Poor windows XP...

[aaroninclub]

@moonlitmurloc sam is crap

[harrynicholas]

You've stopped being entertaining - goodnight.

[harrynicholas]

Mr Stewart Chefshat can't spell his own name.

[harrynicholas]

Did you know the audio preview stills tries to audio preview even when the audio preview box has nothing to preview?

Previously on Audio Preview...

[harrynicholas]

Is it really mum? Can't I write just a few more things down? Awe mum, just one more funny sentence - I'll go to bed early tomorrow, promise. Awe shucks.

[strawberryfields1982]

Harry if we are all children why are you writing comments to us? Oh I do apologise, going by your dodgy facial hair I can see you are indeed a weirdo!

[harrynicholas]

chuckles - that's a nice one, dodgy facial hair, next you'll go on about my funny accent, and the fact I have a low IQ.

[strawberryfields1982]

You want to groom your facial hair! Rather than children! Harry also go to the head doctor, get some head pills for your Head!

[harrynicholas]

You know I go to a lot of trouble writing these witty comments, looking up the three laws, finding out Stephen Hawkings gender, checking my spelling. And you know what I get? Not wit, not the clever rejoinder, not even a nerdy technical detail pointing out the errors in my theses, just some twit going 'oy, big nose'.

[harrynicholas]

If you're really a child why aren't you in school?

[strawberryfields1982]

Listen I'm not a child, I'm an adult! Harry why are you trolling me about a video made about speech synth in the eighties! Thats sad!

[harrynicholas]

I'm not a child either. I am childish though. If I were you I would change my shorts - you look ridiculous in those funny trousers. I have to go and wipe my nose now. Are you left-handed?

[harrynicholas]

I'm not listening.

[harrynicholas]

Well I did listen to the audio preview - lol - fanbase, fanbase, fanbase - that sounds really funny on the audio preview.

[harrynicholas]

trolling? is that a camp sort of way of walking, like strolling, but gayer? Can you walk (or troll) and talk at the same time, well get going then, your voice sounds better the further away it gets.

I'm going to make a book out of my youtube comments and retire on the royalties...ha ha bet YOU didn't think of that.

[strawberryfields1982]

Harry you old swine! I knew not to trust a man with the laughing Cavalier goatee! You would sell more copys if you used my comments and not your own as I am funnier! But don't as I'll sue you!

[harrynicholas]

you funnier as not goatee Harry copys sell You sue I'll and comments man and more trust Cavalier with laughing would your - blimey this is hard work - are you sure you're worth it?

[strawberryfields1982]

Hey Quagmire whats your point?

[harrynicholas]

Is any of us real? Are any of us real? What is the correct grammer for that sentence? I asked my computer but it told me to ask my gram ma (I think, it sounded drunk and was slurring it's worms). uh I meant words. Funny the voice preview pronounced 'us' U.S. - how gung ho is that?

[harrynicholas]

I just write stuff down, gibberish, swearing, Shakespeare, anything just to listen to the audio preview and reflect on the irony of my computer repeating the junk I write down and share with the world. I think I may be going bonkers, bonkers, bonkers - ha ha I love the sound of the audio preview saying bonkers, ha ha bonkers bonkers bonkers ha ha I think I wet my pants, bonkers bonkers (etc etc).

[harrynicholas]

Hmmm, yawn, stretch. Well, that was a little nice nap, when I feel in need of relaxation I can just listen to the opening few words and poof! I'm asleep.

Is it true Stepen Hawkings vocoder is no longer availible and that he has to have a womans voice?

In the 70's I used to work on soft porn magazines, using one of the early Singer type-setting machines, it had glitches and sometimes it would print out things like "he ran his fingers along her flflflffllfkkkkwwlll leg". Amusing eh? Audio preview?

[SegaMegadriveMic]

speech synthesis is amazing.

[harrynicholas]

I can't wait til we have human synthysis.

[strawberryfields1982]

You can tell they are dying too ask can you make it swear thats all I used too do on the amiga!

" Carl you've seen the exorcist can you make it say "Your Mother sucks cocks in hell? Well can you!"

[harrynicholas]

According to Asimov's three laws of robotics:

1) A robot may not swear at a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to be sworn at by another human being, including Stephen Hawking.

2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders are swear words.

3)Bugger off. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with hearing swear words, or those orders come from a person suffering from Turets.

[harrynicholas]

addendum to law 1) on pain of being zapped with a powerful laser-type weapon.

[harrynicholas]

What you're really after tho strawberry is "can it suck my pathetic little cock into a shape and size that my possibly result in a thin watery fluid called 'sperm' but in actual fact is only 5% sperm, 20% pee pee and the rest water", 'cos I'm only 12 years old and found out about swearing from my 'uncle' yesterday.

[dastardlydude67]

Sounds like a Speak 'n Spell. Where the hell is Stephen Hawking when you need him.

[harrynicholas]

In a wheelchair of course you heartless toady, it's not his fault.

[magicianspirit]

Wow amazing the size of the board they needed back then just to do TTS.

[electricpony]

Great stuff, thanks for uploading this.

[harrynicholas]

Wow! those guys look AND sound like they can actually talk, maybe even think! Christ that's scary.

[bphutchins]

huh?

[harrynicholas]

Hmmm, yawn, stretch. Well, that was a little nice nap, when I feel in need of relaxation I can just listen to the opening few words and poof! I'm asleep.

Is it true Stepen Hawkings vocoder is no longer availible and that he has to have a womans voice?

In the 70's I used to work on soft porn magazines, using one of the early Singer type-setting machines, it had glitches and sometimes it would print out things like "he ran his fingers along her flflflffllfkkkkwwlll leg". Amusing eh? Audio preview?

[harrynicholas]

PPS this was supposed to have had my video response added (Obviousley not wanted) of robbie the robot telling them there presence wasn't desired - take a look at my channel (if you cn give a damn). Have a nice day (that was added automatically).

[harrynicholas]

you spelled can wrong - didn't the audio preview pick up on that?

[metabog]

Who is this guy? He rocked, it was really groundbreaking and he explained it perfectly.

[metabog]

Nevermind it was written on screen :P