SAPPORO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hatsune Miku is probably best known as a virtual pop-singer, but actually is a voice synthesizer developed by Crypton Future Media in 2007. Not only the software, but ...

Some people collect stamps. Others collect porcelain miniatures. [David Viens] collects voice synthesizers and their ROMs. In this video, he just got his hands on the ultra-rare Electronic Voice Alert ...

Speech synthesis has been around since roughly the middle of the 20th century. Once upon a time, it took remarkably advanced hardware just to even choke out a few words. But as [atomic14] shows with ...

Recorded on October 11, 2011. Screenwriter and film critic Roger Ebert uses a voice synthesizer developed by a Scottish company which custom-tailors text-to-speech software for voiceless customers.

The software enables him to press a switch in his hand to create words and sentences easily and intuitively. Once he has built up a sentence, he sends it to NeoSpeech's VoiceText speech synthesizer, ...