TVs that answer back....

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

I wonder how many Apple patents they had to pay for?

Text to speech predates Apple by decades. I had a text to speech
program on paper tape that ran on a Leo 3 in 1970. I've no idea who
wrote it.

Apple has recently obtained a number of TTS patents. These probably
relate to improvements in the naturalness of speech and use on mobile
devices. They don't have any control over TTS in general. Even if
Panasonic have licensed patents for this, most of them are probably
not from Apple.

-- Richard

On 31/03/2012 9:26 AM, Adrian C wrote:
On 31/03/2012 09:05, Brian Gaff wrote:
+01: UK's First Inbuilt Text-To-Speech TVs Hit The Shelves.

Electronics manufacturer Panasonic has built text-to-speech

functionality into 30 of its television models,

I wonder how many Apple patents they had to pay for?




text to speech has been around forever - even on the zx spectrum you
could fit a currah speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq_pYiXh9zw

--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

On 31/03/2012 10:29 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Chuckle, a bit like that so called inteligent interface for Iphones on
adverts at the moment. The voice on that is from the same stable as the one
Panasonic are using.
I wonder if any of the sets with inbuilt freesat have the voice.that would
be the only game in town if they have.
Brian



i always think that voice sounds like alan deadicoat

--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

On 31/03/2012 09:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
None, after all the goodmans box has been around for some years now, and
ththey probably bought the rights or the rights were owned by rnib.
Personally I'm a bit orried by the first part of the surname of the
Panasonic bloke. It is after all nearly April 1.
Hope its true though

He seems to be a real person

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/nigel-prankard/13/41b/b0
--
Phil Cook

On 31/03/2012 09:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
Personally I'm a bit orried by the first part of the surname of the
Panasonic bloke. It is after all nearly April 1.

He seems to be genuine. This link

http://www.dvb.org/groups_modules/commercial_module/cm3dtv/index.xml

says he is secretary of the CM-3DTV group within the DVB consortium.

Andy