How are computerised voices generated?

How are robotic voices created? And what's their future? Will they ever sound human?

28 April 2015

Part of the show Game on! The Science of Video Gaming

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Could you explain how the voices on the car navigation devices are made?

Answer

We put this to Cambridge University's Dr Pierre Lanchantin...

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