The Korean company made the surprise move of releasing a larger variant of its popular Galaxy S6 Edge rather than simply sticking with its Note line of phablets, which launched in 2011 and defined the new half phone, half tablet category.
Half-phones… well, obviously, they're half a phone.
All the half-phones (the two half-phones of a diphone) of the synthesized sentence and the recorded sentence were resampled individually to make the number of visual samples equal.
For synthesis, we made modifications to the TTS system submitted to the Blizzard challenge 2015 [32]. 1. Unit size: Units of different sizes ranging from frame-sized units [33, 34], HMM-state sized [35, 36], half-phones [1], and diphones [37] to syllables [38] and to much larger and non-uniform units [39] have been investigated in the literature.
Unit size: Units of different sizes ranging from frame-sized units [33, 34], HMM-state sized [35, 36], half-phones [1], and diphones [37] to syllables [38] and to much larger and non-uniform units [39] have been investigated in the literature.
That one's different, though: it didn't go so deep into the sound as to recreate it at the sample level, but stopped at the (still quite low) level of half-phones, or fractions of a phoneme.
That speech was then segmented into tiny pieces called half-phones; phones are the smallest sounds that make up speech, but of course they can be said in different ways — rising, falling, quicker, slower, with more or less aspiration, that kind of thing.
Moments later I had an hour-and-a-half phone call with a close friend from high school.
The Samsung Galaxy Note II, which is such a monster of a smartphone that the press has dubbed it a "phablet" (half-phone, half-tablet), measures its display at "only" 5.5 inches, a mere child's toy next to the Ascend Mate.
At the CTIA Wireless 2001 trade show, phone maker Motorola unveiled a half dozen phones that will use GPRS technology in different ways.
