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I was asked last year to give a speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum.
At the same time, I flew back to my home country, they hated that speech so much.
More than 13,000 voters answered this poll: whether they considered me a traitor or not after that speech.
I hope you find clues to answer that from my speech.
There are machines that need to talk to machines and that we need to talk to, and so as time goes on, we're going to have to learn how to communicate with computers and how to get computers to communicate with us in the way that we're accustomed to, not with keyboards, not with mice, but with speech and gestures and all the natural human language that we're accustomed to.
You come into the laboratory, and you're told you have to give a five-minute impromptu speech on your personal weaknesses to a panel of expert evaluators sitting right in front of you, and to make sure you feel the pressure, there are bright lights and a camera in your face, kind of like this.
It had a speech synthesizer.
In 1974, the great Ray Kurzweil, the American inventor, worked on building a machine that would scan books and read them out in synthetic speech.
Optical character recognition units then only operated usually on one font, but by using charge-coupled device flatbed scanners and speech synthesizers, he developed a machine that could read any font.
Freedom House finds that although 50 percent of the world's countries today are democratic, 70 percent of those countries are illiberal in the sense that people don't have free speech or freedom of movement.
It'll start censoring legitimate public speech.
Think of Steve Jobs' really inspirational speech to the 2005 graduating class at Stanford, where he said to be innovative, you've got to stay hungry, stay foolish.
As the mayor was preparing to deliver the speech starting the march, his team noticed that, while half of the participants were appropriately dressed in white, and bearing banners asking for peace, the other half was actually marching in support of the criminal organization and its now-presumed-defunct leader.
These tools of creativity have become tools of speech.
So the solution is actually to take inspiration from another domain: speech recognition.
And I talked to a bunch of people about, should I give a speech at TEDWomen about women, and they said, oh no, no.
And Pat's a friend, and so, not related to the speech I was planning on giving, which was chock full of facts and figures, and nothing personal, I told Pat the story.
As a speech scientist, I'm fascinated by how the voice is produced, and I have an idea for how it can be engineered.
I'm going to play you now a sample of someone who has, two people actually, who have severe speech disorders.
Dr. Bunnell is an expert in speech synthesis, and what he'd been doing is building personalized voices for people by putting together pre-recorded samples of their voice and reconstructing a voice for them.
We didn't have the luxury of pre-recorded samples of speech for those born with speech disorder.
Now before I get into the details of how the voice is made and let you listen to it, I need to give you a real quick speech science lesson.
Fact number two is that speech is a combination of the source, which is the vibrations generated by your voice box, which are then pushed through the rest of the vocal tract.
So the combination of source and filter is how we produce speech.
Now I told you earlier that I'd spent a good part of my career understanding and studying the source characteristics of people with severe speech disorder, and what I've found is that even though their filters were impaired, they were able to modulate their source: the pitch, the loudness, the tempo of their voice.
Why don't we take the source from the person we want the voice to sound like, because it's preserved, and borrow the filter from someone about the same age and size, because they can articulate speech, and then mix them?
The more speech you have, the better sounding voice you're going to have.
Once you have those recordings, what we need to do is we have to parse these recordings into little snippets of speech, one- or two-sound combinations, sometimes even whole words that start populating a dataset or a database.
RP: So that's speech synthesis.
All we need is a few hours of speech from our surrogate talker, and as little as a vowel from our target talker, to create a unique vocal identity.
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