RealSpeak Word.RealSpeak Word 1.0, a new speech solution for electronic talking dictionaries provides a highly natural-sounding English voice that, it is claimed, supports vocabularies up to ten times larger than competing products with no memory increase required. Electronic talking dictionaries are very popular tools in the Asia Pacific Region, particularly for students who are eager to learn and improve their pronunciation pronunciation: see phonetics; phonology. Pronunciation - In this dictionary slashes (/../) bracket phonetic pronunciations of words not found in a standard English dictionary. and intonation intonation In phonetics, the melodic pattern of an utterance. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the voice (see tone), but in languages such as English, stress and rhythm are also involved. of English words and idioms. With an electronic dictionary Noun 1. electronic dictionary - a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically machine readable dictionary, MRD lexical database - a database of information about words , a user types in the English word and it is read aloud in a native U.S. English voice. In 2003, approximately eight million talking dictionaries were sold throughout the region. RealSpeak Word uses a new approach to achieve high quality synthesis for predefined words and idioms based on a coding-by-synthesis model rather than the traditional method of recording the audio data and then using a speech coder. This traditional method requires significantly more storage memory. The coding-by-synthesis model provides enhanced voice quality, wordlist flexibility and memory usage over traditional products that use pre-recorded audio, Also introduced by ScanSoft for the talking dictionary market is RealSpeak Pin-Yin, a high quality, low footprint engine for Mandarin Chinese syllable syllable Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a, I, out, too, cap, snap, check). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen, also constitutes a syllable. synthesis. RealSpeak Pin-Yin also leverages RealSpeak technology and the speech synthesizer synthesizer Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. available in the current generation of SSFT SSFT Secure Socket File Transfer 6040 chips. www.scansoft.com/realspeak/word/. |
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