The world which is moving at a faster pace in every aspect like transportation,faster growing children and communication.
some even feel that people are speaking faster which makes it difficult to some of us to keep pace.
The newly developed device invented in the Science and technical research laboratories of japan, NHK will help us abit.
They created a speech rate conversion technology that is designed to be used in a couple of ways.
We have seen a recording played at a fast speed? This is commonly done in video or audio editing to search through a large material of volume in short time.
Normally when the speed is speeded up it sounds like chimpunk (comic)characters some of us listened to.
When the pitch is shifted to restore to its original level ,the individual words become difficult to understand.But,the system developed by japan’s STRL has changed that.
Its new technology maintains the original pitch of speech while playing back at faster rate.
Its adaptiveness allows the listeners to comprehend what i being said even at speeds that are five times than the normal rate .
This system benefits elderly listeners by slowing down radio broadcasts or the speech in television programs.
Its obvious that the older people have some hearing complexions due to arious reasons.
This disability might include difficulty in perceiving specific frequencies and problem in understanding speech with large amount of background noice.
Its also known that with age comes a decreased ability to understand rapid speech.In order to reach this audience,STRL felt that something new had to be done.
since it does’nt seem meaningful that the television announcers would slow down,so they applied the speech rate conversion method to this problem.
By shortening the pauses between sentences,the slowed speech can be presented in real time.
It is used in languages other than Japanese like English, German,Chinese,French etc.
The world continues to be speeding up and we continue to age. Whether you are looking for a job or working,you need to search through large quantities of audio and video material.
This new speech rate conversion technology may make our life a little easier than before.
I hope the above article is helpful for you in knowing about the Speech rate conversion technology.
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