From: Ted Hopp (ted.hopp@newslate.com)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2007 - 08:45:30 CST
One interesting application I've seen is cantillation synthesis of the
Hebrew Bible. Kinnor Software (www.kinnor.com) markets a product called
Trope Trainer that chants any selection from the Torah using a voice,
pronunciation, and melody that the user selects. They have a free demo that
gives a good idea of its capabilities. (For those unfamiliar with Jewish
ritual practices, there is a tradition of weekly public readings from the
Hebrew Bible. High priority is given to accuracy in chanting. This software
is a study tool for readers.)
The Kinnor software appears to be built on top of the DECtalk system
developed in the 1980s. I don't know what data representation it (the Kinnor
software) uses internally, but it's reasonable to think that the system is
built on top of a straight text encoding. The musical aspects set it off
from the usual text-to-speech application.
Ted Hopp
ZigZag, Inc.
ted.hopp@newSLATE.com
+1-301-990-7453
Hebrew in Hand, for your mobile device
http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewinhand/
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hudson" <john@tiro.ca>
Cc: "Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Things to do with text
> Michael Maxwell wrote:
>
>> Like the things corpus linguists do to build applications, or field
>> linguists do to analyze a language? And if so, are you interested in
>> annotated text (footnoted text, interlinear text, text tagged for names
>> or numbers...), or just plain text in one or more languages?
>
> I'm primarily interested, at the moment, in activities or operations that
> rely heavily on the fact that the text is computerised, i.e. that would be
> difficult or impossible to do with 'analogue' text. I'm particularly
> interested in the sort of things that can be said to happen invisibly,
> i.e. operations performed on text as encoded entities that might only be
> secondarily displayed using fonts, or perhaps not displayed at all. So
> yes, I think the sort of things corpus linguists might do would be of
> interest, and I'd like to gain an understanding of some examples.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John Hudson
>
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