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32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)

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The Speech Synthesis: A Computerized Voice That Reads What You Type

Ponto's is a computerized voice that will read what you type. The new voice has been doing weird stuff when you feed it certain kinds of nonsense. For example, some people have been typing an H over and over again. Well, first of all, I shouldn't have training data for like a삹, H, duph, h, Forest. Shouldn't have any way of predicting how to pronounce it. Just try its computer little best to do the best you can.

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