Abstract: Recently, an increasing number of visualization systems have begun to incorporate natural language generation (NLG) capabilities into their interfaces. NLG-based visualization systems ...

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A group of Buddhist monks is nearing the completion of a massive 2,300-mile journey from Texas to Washington, D.C., marking their 105th day on the road. Trump wanted airport, station named after him ...

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

Abstract: This article explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs for AT&T’s 1939 New York World’s Fair exhibit. The article situates the ...

尽管我不是机器人，但在互联网上我常常需要花费大量时间来证明“我不是机器人”，比如，点击照片中的人行横道和摩托车、辨认扭曲的数字与字母，甚至还要勾选小方框来确认自己并非机器人。 这些所谓的验证码，也就是“完全自动化的公共图灵测试以区分 ...

“从电子通信到音乐舞台，荷马·达德利的发明超越了他的时代。”如果你以为声码器（Vocoder）只是一个用来制作机器人声音的工具，那你可能需要重新认识它的历史。它的发明者荷马·达德利（Homer Dudley），原本并不是为音乐而设计这个设备，而是为了解决 20 ...

GPS导航仪上的声音，智能手机上的虚拟助手，以及拨打公司热线电话时得到的自动回复，都不是真实的声音。换句话说，没有一个大型的口语数据库可供计算机提取并将它们串在一起来创建一个句子。它们是由计算机动态生成的，但它们听起来如此自然、如此 ...

Long before Siri, there was Pedro the Voice Operation Demonstrator– "Voder" for short. This first machine to talk electronically was the brainchild of an engineer named Homer Dudley who worked at Bell ...

Technologies developed for specific uses sometimes unexpectedly jump to another totally unrelated application. The first-ever digital musical instrument, for example, repurposed aerospace ...