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Brandon Thomas 90a0e367fa Syllable-based synthesis (WIP)
- Vowels indicate syllable

- Algorithm tracks consonants and uses heuristics to attach them to a
  vowel island.

- Still work in progress.
2016-10-27 01:27:55 -04:00

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Remaining Tasks

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

  • MORE SAMPLES
  • IMPROVED SAMPLES
  • Remove extra space between words (using parsing to insert spacing)
  • No more missing phonemes
    • Real versions of ['AO0', 'AW0', 'AW2', 'AY0', 'EY0', 'OY0', 'UH0'], which were backfilled with fakes.

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

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

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

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

Parsing Examples

  • Camel case even outside of hashtags:
    • "Google acquires FameBit", StateOfW, AdaLovelaceDay
  • Time: 7:30pm, 5:30ET, 9pm ET, 8:00 P.M., 8pm ET
  • Hyphenated: 2-party
  • They will get horrible sentences, violently.We have the support.#RepealThe1st
  • #100YearsStrong