Bilingual avatar speaks Mundie language

(PhysOrg.com) -- This week's Microsoft Big Idea event, TechFest 2012, presented the latest advances on the part of researchers at Microsoft. A bilingual talking head received much of the attention. Called "Monolingual TTS," the Microsoft research effort involves software that can translate the user’s speech into another language and in a voice that sounds like the original user’s. As Microsoft explains, with the use of a speaker’s monolingual recording, the system's algorithm can render speech sentences in different languages for building "mixed coded bilingual text to speech (TTS) systems."

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