{"id":382228,"date":"2010-03-02T06:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2010-03-02T06:48:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:48:18","slug":"weird-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382228","title":{"rendered":"Weird synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have predicted that this would work as well as it does:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/muCPjK4nGY4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/muCPjK4nGY4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-2152\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haskins.yale.edu\/featured\/sws\/sws.html\">Sinewave synthesis<\/a> (Robert Remez et al. &#8220;Speech perception without traditional speech cues&#8221;, <em>Science<\/em> 1981) pointed the way, but this is pretty far down the road. Now I want to hear the string orchestra and brass band versions.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the apparent intelligibility is <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001936.html\">mostly a function of knowing what was &#8220;said&#8221;<\/a>. But still.<\/p>\n<p>[Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/ventolin.org\/2009\/10\/die-stimme-des-klaviers\/\">Aengus<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have predicted that this would work as well as it does: Sinewave synthesis (Robert Remez et al. &#8220;Speech perception without traditional speech cues&#8221;, Science 1981) pointed the way, but this is pretty far down the road. Now I want to hear the string orchestra and brass band versions. Of course, the apparent intelligibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}