A team of developers at the University of Saskatchewan is working on creating the next level of computer speech.
Ian Stavness, an associate professor at the U of S says their new approach differs from what is currently used by companies, where the voice of an actor is recorded saying different words and splicing those words together to create sentences.
What Stavness and his team are doing is simulating the same processes as the human body to generate speech sounds through a computer.
This method is called articulatory speech synthesis.
Stavness adds this method also has a health aspect as doctors will be able to use the created simulations to help with a patient who may be dealing with a disorder or injury relating to eating, breathing or talking.
Stavness believes the next five years will be big in the development of computer speech as his team’s method is still in the research phase.