The processing chain in SynFace is illustrated in Figure 2. SynFace employs a specially developed real-time phoneme recognition system, that delivers information regarding the speech signal-to-a speech animation module that renders the talking face on the computer screen using 3D graphics.
Several weeks ago I was watching C-SPAN and heard a very articulate and obviously intelligent woman render a highly partisan speech condemning the current administration and actively soliciting support to defeat it.
Joe Alwan, a vice-president and the general manager of the division that makes B.B.N.'s "callerexperience analytics" software, which is called Avoke, was showing me how the technology can automatically create a log of events in a call, render the speech as text, and make it searchable.
At the Council on Foreign Relations he delivered a speech that was rendered semi-incomprehensible by his wholly personal brand of English pronunciation.
The specific meanings of the verbal expression and its arguments, combined with knowledge of the world and context of speech, may render a type of construal more, or less, plausible.
"Aggression" may simply have been misnamed: Mr. Haas's "Eyebud (3002)," a setting of a speech by President George W. Bush, rendered backward ("Eyebud" is, roughly, "Dubya"), suited the title, and Mr. Sprawls gave it a gruff reading that made it sound Russian.
He rendered a hard line proposal, first in last November's issue of Foreign Affairs and again on March 26 in a speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
More surprisingly – and perhaps in an attempt to avoid Oirishry – he steers clear of rendering Irish speech beyond a few "sures" and "lads".
The holy grail of voice recognition technology is to render speech as a natural method of communication between humans and the software that's proverbially eating the world.
It's admirable that Wolfe wants to get as much of contemporary Miami into his book as possible, but the quality of the conduit is of greater concern than the quantity of the supply: it is useless to feature Russians in your novel, just because they exist in Miami, if this is how you render their speech: "You vant to share zees studio?
This was judged to render the speech content unintelligible while retaining most prosodic features.
