Voice Machines
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Voice Machines
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Author : Bonnie Gordon
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-05-31
Voice Machines written by Bonnie Gordon and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-31 with Music categories.
An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine. Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Constructed through surgical alteration and further modified by rigorous training, castrati inhabited human bodies that had been “mechanized” to produce sounds in ways that unmechanized bodies could not. The voices of these technologically enhanced singers, with their unique timbre, range, and strength, contributed to a dramatic expansion of musical vocabulary and prompted new ways of imagining sound, the body, and personhood. Connecting sometimes bizarre snippets of history, this multi-disciplinary book moves backward and forward in time, deliberately troubling the meaning of concepts like “technology” and “human.” Voice Machines attends to the ways that early modern encounters and inventions—including settler colonialism, emergent racialized worldviews, the printing press, gunpowder, and the telescope—participated in making castrati. In Bonnie Gordon’s revealing study, castrati serve as a critical provocation to ask questions about the voice, the limits of the body, and the stories historians tell.
Voice Machines
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Author : Bonnie Gordon
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-05-31
Voice Machines written by Bonnie Gordon and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-31 with History categories.
"The castrato phenomenon stretched from the late sixteenth century, when castrati first appeared in Italian courts and churches, through the eighteenth century, when they occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Throughout this time, the voice of the castrato--hailed as uniquely strong, flexible and expressive--contributed to a dramatic expansion of the musical vocabulary and to finding new ways to embody the poetic text. For us today, the castrato also highlights the porous relationship of voices and instruments/machines and the inherent materiality of sound. In her revealing study, Bonnie Gordon asks what it meant that the early-modern period produced a caste of technologically altered male singers and she uses the castrato as a critical provocation for asking questions about the interrelated histories of music, technology, sound, the limits of the human body, and what counts as human"--
Voice Communication Between Humans And Machines
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Author : for the National Academy of Sciences
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1994-02-01
Voice Communication Between Humans And Machines written by for the National Academy of Sciences and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-02-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Science fiction has long been populated with conversational computers and robots. Now, speech synthesis and recognition have matured to where a wide range of real-world applicationsâ€"from serving people with disabilities to boosting the nation's competitivenessâ€"are within our grasp. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines takes the first interdisciplinary look at what we know about voice processing, where our technologies stand, and what the future may hold for this fascinating field. The volume integrates theoretical, technical, and practical views from world-class experts at leading research centers around the world, reporting on the scientific bases behind human-machine voice communication, the state of the art in computerization, and progress in user friendliness. It offers an up-to-date treatment of technological progress in key areas: speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language understanding. The book also explores the emergence of the voice processing industry and specific opportunities in telecommunications and other businesses, in military and government operations, and in assistance for the disabled. It outlines, as well, practical issues and research questions that must be resolved if machines are to become fellow problem-solvers along with humans. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of voice processing for engineers, researchers, and business executives, as well as speech and hearing specialists, advocates for people with disabilities, faculty and students, and interested individuals.
The Voice In The Machine
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Author : Roberto Pieraccini
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012
The Voice In The Machine written by Roberto Pieraccini and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Computers categories.
An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversations with his fellow space travelers. More than forty years later, we have advanced computer technology that Kubrick never imagined, but we do not have computers that talk and understand speech as HAL did. Is it a failure of our technology that we have not gotten much further than an automated voice that tells us to "say or press 1"? Or is there something fundamental in human language and speech that we do not yet understand deeply enough to be able to replicate in a computer? In The Voice in the Machine, Roberto Pieraccini examines six decades of work in science and technology to develop computers that can interact with humans using speech and the industry that has arisen around the quest for these technologies. He shows that although the computers today that understand speech may not have HAL's capacity for conversation, they have capabilities that make them usable in many applications today and are on a fast track of improvement and innovation. Pieraccini describes the evolution of speech recognition and speech understanding processes from waveform methods to artificial intelligence approaches to statistical learning and modeling of human speech based on a rigorous mathematical model--specifically, Hidden Markov Models (HMM). He details the development of dialog systems, the ability to produce speech, and the process of bringing talking machines to the market. Finally, he asks a question that only the future can answer: will we end up with HAL-like computers or something completely unexpected?
The Voice Of The Machines
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Author : Gerald Stanley Lee
language : en
Publisher: Tutis Digital Pub
Release Date : 2008-02-01
The Voice Of The Machines written by Gerald Stanley Lee and has been published by Tutis Digital Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-01 with Science categories.
The Voice Of The Machines
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Author : Stanley Gerald Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-05-01
The Voice Of The Machines written by Stanley Gerald Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with categories.
The Voice Of The Machines An Introduction To The Twentieth Century
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Author : Lee Gerald Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-23
The Voice Of The Machines An Introduction To The Twentieth Century written by Lee Gerald Stanley and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with categories.
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The Voice Of The Machines
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Author : Gerald Stanley Lee
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
The Voice Of The Machines written by Gerald Stanley Lee and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Voice of the Machines" (An Introduction to the Twentieth Century) by Gerald Stanley Lee. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Voice Of The Machines An Introduction The Twentieth Century
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Author : Gerald Stanley Lee
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-03
The Voice Of The Machines An Introduction The Twentieth Century written by Gerald Stanley Lee and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with categories.
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Voice Box Stories Out Of The Box Vol 1
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Author : Maureen Muldoon
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Voice Box Stories Out Of The Box Vol 1 written by Maureen Muldoon and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.