Trumped TODO
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Improve synthesis system
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- Speech modes:
  - "SHOUT" words for emphasis.
  - Question intonation in interrogative sentences.
  - Clear conjection words: "But I think..." vs. "Blah blah, BUT blah blah blah."
- Arpabet where the numbers are parameters: AW(0), AW(2), etc.
- Multiple word samples with unit selection
- Pluralization

Words to Fix
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- you're / your is 'yer'. too short.
- want is 'wan'. too short.
- that's
- 'what' is 'wet'. bad.

# Needed words
- need
- shut up
- suck/sucks
- tell
- idea

# Shout words
- die
- favorite
- hands
- tiny

# Phonemes to fix
- BReak
- badASS
- deMAND
- naME
- thinKING
- unfortuNate

OLD Last Minute Burndown
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- Disable volume and speed parameters.
- In-Memory LRU Cache

- Better audio samples
  - Multiple "umm" / "uhh" samples
  - Fix words that sound bad

- User input filtering
  - Strip spaces in frontend.
  - Make sure there's no XSS injection.
  - Remove speed query parameter (for now).

- Frontend filesize
  - Downscale the animation. Maybe make a sprite sheet?

OLD Super Low Priority
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- Frontend filesize:
  - Progressive loading of the animation (involved).
  - Zepto.js
  - Remove pixi.js dependency

OLDER Old Goals
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*HIGH LEVEL GOALS*
  1. Sound better
  2. Handle load
  3. Recoup costs
  4. Look good (UI, speaking capability) - good reflection
  5. Good code

Audio Samples
  - Remove extra space between words (using parsing to insert spacing)
  - Phonemes
    - Real versions of ['AO0', 'AW0', 'AW2', 'AY0', 'EY0', 'OY0', 'UH0'], which
      were backfilled with fakes.

Scaling
  1. Load test
  2. Read wave files into memory
  3. Multi-server, with nginx as load balancer
  4. Prevent others from calling it
  5. Caching strategy
    - Caching headers (make sure they work)
    - Filter strings clientside to boost savings.

Tokenizing
  - Plurals
  - Times (9 p.m. ET)

Parsing
  - (Everything in tokenizing)
  - Decimal numbers
  - Collapse pauses, eg: "Foo,,," -> "Foo (breath)"
  - Numbers that are years (2016)!
  - Twitter hashtags, usernames - conjoined word parsing (difficult)

Synthesis
  - Get rid of static with "Uhhh", "Ummm" of variable length (option).
  - Syllable System:
    - http://cdmckay.org/blog/2012/08/15/counting-syllables-and-detecting-rhyme-in-php/
    - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33111685/convert-arpabet-to-ipa-with-stress
    - Or scrape something:
      - http://www.syllablecount.com/syllables/biologically

Cleanup
  - Refactor into a very well-defined "SpeakRequest" with all
    parameters, including new ones like "is_twitter",
    "missing_word_mode = slience, record_pop, umm", etc.
  - Remove old query parameters
  - Set default volume

Server
  1. Favicon, .ico and apple icon
  2. robots.txt

Hardening
  1. Reduce API surface
  2. Limit length of input sentences
  3. Rate limiting

Presentation
  - Better frontend UI
  - Testing page (current frontend)

Monetization
  - Can I get sued?
  - Ads
  - Native Apps
    - (I don't have time to learn this.)
    - Contact other developers?
    - PhoneGap? (Blah)

Extra
  - Clientside speed changing
  - Let people type nonsense syllables

OLD Parsing Examples
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- Camel case even outside of hashtags:
  - "Google acquires FameBit", StateOfW, AdaLovelaceDay
- Hyphenated: 2-party
- They will get horrible sentences, violently.We have the support.#RepealThe1st
- #100YearsStrong