Comments on: VOIP and Arabic Text to Speech (synthesis) http://DR-Mahbob.com/blog/2009/01/30/voip-and-arabic-text-to-speech-synthesis/ articles about technology, computers, internet, Jewellery Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:15:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bashar http://DR-Mahbob.com/blog/2009/01/30/voip-and-arabic-text-to-speech-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-2246 Bashar Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:27:32 +0000 http://DR-Mahbob.com/blog/2009/01/30/voip-and-arabic-text-to-speech-synthesis/#comment-2246 While still far from reliable, still very impressive for Arabic. They fail with al 7arakat in Arabic. For example, a simple word salam 3alaikom is not pronounced accordingly. This either needs intelligence to guess the 7araka, or more work to adapt to user type. But this is a much overhead on the user. Another thing is, try writing سلاااااام and see how it pronounces every A again rather than just make it long one. Its the same case in English though. It doesnt say SPARTAAAAAAAAAA but SPARTA'A'A'A :( not fun While still far from reliable, still very impressive for Arabic. They fail with al 7arakat in Arabic. For example, a simple word salam 3alaikom is not pronounced accordingly. This either needs intelligence to guess the 7araka, or more work to adapt to user type. But this is a much overhead on the user.

Another thing is, try writing سلاااااام and see how it pronounces every A again rather than just make it long one. Its the same case in English though. It doesnt say SPARTAAAAAAAAAA but SPARTA’A'A’A :(
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