Vocalizations convey information about the vocalizer, such as its identity (Semple 2001; Rendall 2003; Price et al. 2009), sex (Ey et al. 2007), age (Hammerschmidt et al. 2000), size (Pfefferle and Fischer 2006), hormonal state (Pfefferle et al. 2008; Pfefferle et al. 2011), and very likely kinship (Gouzoules and Gouzoules 1990; Hauser 1991; Pfefferle et al. 2014b).
At age 30, he left Atari in 1984 to found Breakaway Technologies, hoping to make it big with his Vocalizer 1000.
These data are the first direct evidence for the hypothesis that formants embedded in the acoustic structure of nonhuman primate calls provide cues to the physical characteristics of the vocalizer [3 7].
With the percentage of total looking time to the match screen used as a dependent variable, an ANOVA was conducted to explore any possible interactions among four primary variables (side of screen [left versus right], vocalizer [acoustic signal of monkey 1 versus monkey 2], face [visual signal of monkey 1 versus monkey 2], and vocal tract length [long versus short]).
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It took four years to develop the $299 Vocalizer 1000 and get it into department stores in time for Christmas.
The Jawbone ERA is the first mobile device deployment of Vocalizer Network, and was fully-integrated and developed through the Nuance Mobile Developer Program.
Nuance will soon be making its Vocalizer Network connected TTS capabilities publicly available to all developers and manufacturers via the Nuance Mobile Developer Program.
He kept a day job as a consultant and paid $500 a month in rent for a hovel in downtown San Francisco, working late into the night on the Vocalizer 1000.
"To ensure a top-quality experience that was seamless with correct name pronunciation, regardless of whether the name was pre-recorded or generated with TTS, we chose Nuance's Vocalizer Network.
As calls come in, the Jawbone ERA will announce the caller's name in an incredibly natural sounding voice through a combination of pre-recorded names and Nuance's innovative Vocalizer Network TTS for all other names.
