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Designers slog on a robot voice that humans like
Published Mon, Feb 15, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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WHEN computers speak, how human should they sound?
This was a question that a team of six IBM linguists, engineers and marketers faced in 2009, when they began designing a function that turned text into speech for Watson, the company's Jeopardy!-playing artificial intelligence program.
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