Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Future of Apps: Text to Speech


Text to speech is a technology which started in the 1700’s. A text to speech system turns texts into speech using a speech synthesizer, which is often a type of software. In short, a text to speech synthesizer reads out loud whatever is written into the system software.
There are two major components of a text-to-speech engine, which are the front-end and the back-end.
The front-end plays two major roles. Its first role is text normalization. This process helps to convert digits, numbers or even abbreviations into words in written-out forms. Then, it proceeds with text-to-phoneme. It is the process of assigning phonetic transcriptions to the written-out words earlier in the first stage and divides the text into phrases, clauses or sentences. The output of the front-end forms the symbolic linguistic representation.
Next, the text to speech synthesizer begins in the back-end. This is when the symbolic linguistic representation is converted into sound. Here, the phrases, clauses and sentences are given stress and emphasis. Other than that, the software also computes the pitch and duration during the speech. That is how the text is converted into speech.
The criteria which determine the quality of a speech synthesis are naturalness and intelligibility. An ideal speech synthesizer is natural and intelligible. Naturalness describes how similar the speech synthesis is as compared to human speech whereas intelligibility measures how easily the synthesized speech can be understood by human. The two technologies which maximize both the qualities are concatenative synthesis and formant synthesis.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Finding Where to Get Droid App World

When you are thinking about where you can get the best applications for your Droid, you want to make sure you go to the best place. This can be easily done when you go to DriveSafe.ly. This is because they will give you the hottest application out there that allows you to text hands free while driving, or doing other things. This allows you to get the application for free, and the application will work on your Droid phone. Make sure you drive safe when you are using this application because you can hear your texts, and say out loud to your phone the text you would like to send back. Find out all the information you need to know by visiting Drivesafe.ly. They will be able to get you the information you are looking for, and on your way to texting hands free with the totally free application for your cell phone.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Getting Applications for Your New Droid


When you are getting applications for your new droid phone, you should keep a few applications in mind. This is because if you are big on the texting, you will want to make sure you get an application that allows you to do more with texting then ever before. If you drive, then you are able to get an application that allows you to text and drive at the same time. This is because you can hear, and speak to your phone to send and receive the text messages that you want while you drive. This keeps your attention on the road and off the phone when you need it the most. Find out more information on the internet by visiting DriveSafe.ly where you will get to download the free application that keeps your attention on the road, and the statistics for texting while driving accidents on a decrease instead of having them escalate.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Keep your Droid screen brighter with keepscreen


Driod phones are known for their quality and there are thousands of free apps available for the phone. Not all the applications are free, but most of them are free. Keepscreen is one such app that will help prevent screen from timing out. This app works very well if you read emails or WebPages or work out with maps. All you need to do is to install these apps and launch it first. When you start browsing website or start reading emails, you can just enable this apps so that the time out of the screen never starts.
Now, let me just talk about another apps that will help you listen to text while you are on drive. This is also a free apps that is available here DriveSafe.ly. Drive safely will assure drivers safety while he/she is on drive. This is a very light app and will support iphone, droid and blackberry.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Driod Radio Application All around


How do you fell if had a change to hold great number of radio stations in your pocket, you will be amazed to tune to all of them won’t you. Well you can do that if you can get this app called “iheartradio” on your driod. This app works fine with your iphone, blackberry and latest release of the android devices.
Some of the coolest features includes, 350 American radio stations, which also includes stations from Christina Aguilera, Eagles and Weezer. Super cool customizations that will allow you to customize your phone so that the station plays when the apps is launched. You can also but tag songs from iTunes and also include artwork and lyrics. DriveSafe.ly is also a great app that can be an added advantage to your driod phone which will read out the incoming messages while you are on drive. It also responds automatically for the incoming messages.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The range of droid app world


Droid applications are increasing everyday and you can expect many more later this year. In this article we will talk anout dazzboard 2.0 which will help you manage all the music, images and videos from your computer. This application uses the web browser capability to get in touch with your android phone media content. You need to have 2 MB of free space to install this plug in to your Internet explorer web browser or firefox browser on your pc or laptop.

Once you do that you can connect your droid phone to the pc to work with dazzboard. As you already installed a plug in your system should automatically detect the phone and should be connected automatically. You can then play on to control your music in your droid. DriveSafe.ly is one such apps every droid should have. This application helps you for safer driving. This application reads out the incoming message to the drivers when they are on drive.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Driod Radio Application All around


How do you fell if had a change to hold great number of radio stations in your pocket, you will be amazed to tune to all of them won’t you. Well you can do that if you can get this app called “iheartradio” on your driod. This app works fine with your iphone, blackberry and latest release of the android devices.

Some of the coolest features includes, 350 American radio stations, which also includes stations from Christina Aguilera, Eagles and Weezer. Super cool sustiomizations that will allow you to customize your phone so that the station plays when the apps is launched. You can also but tag songs from iTunes and also include artwork and lyrics. Drivesafe.ly is also a great app that can be an added advantage to your driod phone which will read out the incoming messages while you are on drive. It also responds automatically for the incoming messages.