Blooming America

"I'm about to vomit blood..."

Gates lay down in front of the computer, then rolled the keyboard with his face... Well, it feels really good.

When he himself used to play "The Wizarding World", there was a real granddaughter magician named El Quette. The thing that the other party liked most was "I'm rolling the keyboard with my face..."

At this time, Gates discovered that it was really good to do so...

"Be patient, we haven't made any progress in character modeling. Our plan has just begun, and there are always opportunities..."

Jobs was also scratching his head.

Unknowingly, half of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were originally obtained have now been used up, but the next thing is much more difficult than Gates imagined.

Speech synthesis is not that simple. At this time, Gates was almost vomiting blood by this technology.

When developing for that group of Soviet spies, Gates used the hardware method, but now, he needs pure software technology.

Speech synthesis requires that any text information can be converted into standard and smooth voice read aloud in real time, which is equivalent to putting an artificial mouth on the machine. It involves acoustics, linguistics, digital signal processing, computer science and other disciplines and technologies. It is a cutting-edge technology in the field of Chinese information processing. The main problem it solves is how to convert text information into audible sound information, that is, let The machine speaks like a human.

The text-to-speech system that Gates thought about earlier can actually be seen as an artificial intelligence system.

In order to synthesize a high-quality language, in addition to relying on various rules, including semantic rules, vocabulary rules, and phonetics rules, it is also necessary to have a good understanding of the content of the text, which also involves the problem of natural language understanding. The following figure shows a complete schematic diagram of the text-to-speech conversion system. The process of text-to-speech conversion is to first convert the text sequence into a phonological sequence, and then the system generates the phonetic bō form according to the phonological sequence.

The first step involves linguistic processing, such as word segmentation, character-to-sound conversion, etc., and a set of effective prosody control rules; the second step requires advanced speech synthesis technology, which can synthesize high-quality speech streams in real time as required. Therefore, generally speaking, a text-to-speech conversion system requires a complex set of conversion procedures from text sequence to phoneme sequence. That is to say, the text-to-speech conversion system must not only apply digital signal processing technology, but also must have a large amount of linguistic knowledge .

The reason why the progress is so slow is because Gates’ funds are already stretched. He urgently needs a sum of money to maintain his research. You must know that for his small company, Gates has already exhausted his efforts to let him next. Go and invite people, and Gates’ small company will be completely collapsed for two months at most.

But this plan is a bottomless pit. All kinds of experts first need a lot of them. The so-called linguistics is just the beginning.

The theoretical basis of speech synthesis is the mathematical model of speech generation. The speech generation process of this model is that under the excitation of the excitation signal, the sound bō passes through the resonant cavity (vocal tract), and the sound bō is radiated from the mouth or nose. Therefore, channel parameters and channel resonance characteristics have always been the focus of research. Traditionally, the pole on the frequency response of the vocal tract transmission is called the formant, and the distribution characteristics of the formant frequency (pole frequency) of the voice determines the tone of the voice.

Voices with different sounds have different formant modes. Therefore, the frequency of each formant and its bandwidth can be used as a parameter to form a formant filter. Then use several combinations of these filters to simulate the transmission characteristics of the sound channel (frequency response), modulate the signal emitted by the excitation source, and then pass the radiation model to get the synthesized speech.

The establishment of a mathematical model is not something that a high school student can do. At least college students are required to have this knowledge.

"Is it because I didn't do a good job?" The sound of sound next to him seemed to be his own fault.

"Ah... it's not like that, it's just a little bit technically problematic..."

The sound source of Yinwu is perfect, but in the speech synthesis, Gates found that this thing is much more difficult than what he wanted to achieve.

Gates regretted that he invited the other party over at the beginning. It seems that he should only leave one contact information at the time, and wait until later. Although the other party does not take the money, he feels that he is expected to come...Gai Instead, Ci felt a little panicked.

"Why don't we think about it from another angle, what kind of angle do we want to build?"

At this time, Jobs put forward a different view.

"What kind of angle do you build?"

"Well, in this respect... well, it should be a lovely woman... For men, there is always less charm, and the sound of music is already our source of music."

"Then, the most important question-how do we make money, and how do we peddle and promote our role? We also get the source of investment from this."

Jobs began to calmly analyze.

"We can turn this character into an idol, a popular idol... No, we can even develop software that uses this idol as a sound source to make up electronic songs and read e-books!"

When Gates talked about his plan, he was right.

"But speaking of it, what is the name of our character?" Gates murmured back and asked.

And Jobs was also stunned.

This seems really not that simple.

On the other side, Otono tilted his head, as if thinking of something.

"Hatsune Miku...very good!" Jobs' eyes lit up.

Having said that, although this is Otonashi's stage name, it is almost useless.

But at this time, Otonashi felt that this name was just right for this unborn horn.

"Hatsune Miku? Japanese name? But it sounds surprisingly good!" Gates thought it was good.

That's a good name!

"But what does the name mean?" Jobs didn't understand Japanese.

"In Hatsune's words, we can immediately mean the first voice and the starting point. In the future, it means'future'. Our character can be understood as the world's first virtual singer... The future of the world..."

Really, this is just a stage name given to yourself by someone nasty? It seems that Miss Edson, who seems to be famous in the school district, got it. But how did he come up with such a great meaning for such a bad and funny stage name?

"D-b!"

This sentence is also the mantra of El Quett on the Internet, and Gates used it.

"Then, we are looking for investors." Jobs thought.

"How about Microsoft?"

Although an anti-Microsoft alliance was formed, Gates withdrew from the alliance after starting his own company. Now this alliance is supported by a group of children who have their own dreams and ideals. They are tenacious and unyielding. Fight against the evil **oss of Microsoft...Although it has been repeatedly defeated...

At this time, Bill Gates, the apostate, was the first to think of Microsoft. If it were Microsoft, it would seem good to persuade the other party...

"But Microsoft won't give us too much support, right? Although our products are not technically demanding, we often have to rely on the calculations of the North American Computer Center to help, right?"

"This is also..." If the other party is only investing, that's okay, but there are still many things that have not been realized in Gates' technology. At this time, if the other party proposes to intervene in Gates' company, this There is no way to object to the side, otherwise the other party will say: If you don't intervene, you won't give money.

Although they are thinking of pitting investors, if it is Microsoft, there is no way to pit it, right?

"Um...Speaking of which, I have a way..."

Jobs thought for a while, and said so.

"Please use tea." At this moment, looking at the two people discussing Otonashi, they made tea and came over.

"Thank you……"

After receiving the tea, Jobs continued: “Why don’t we make some news? Then it’s not that we will find investors, but investors will come to us. If we can do this, we can choose by ourselves. Investors..."

This method is good! Gates' eyes lit up.

But then think about it, Gates shook his head: "In this case, our creativity will not be known? If we are known, what shall we do next?"

With just one word, Jobs convinced Gates: "Patents."

Yes, you can apply for a patent first!

As long as there is a patent, isn't it all right?

After all, the two are still too young to understand the cruelty of society. They don't know that if their strength is not enough, the patent will not help them much.

Some of the reasons why Catherine's integrated circuit patents were directly authorized, and even not charged, were also because of this.

"Let's get the character image first. We have to fix this first. If this happens, we can use this image to make investments..."

"Arnold... I think Minasan should be able to find a venture fund, right?"

At this time, Otonashi thought of something.

"Entrepreneurship fund?" Jobs seemed to think of something.

"That venture capital?" Gates seemed to see something deeper ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The venture fund under the Quantum Fund might also be a choice..." Jobs felt pretty good.

It's just that he seems to have misunderstood something. The venture fund is not owned by the Quantum Fund, but because Soros is also in charge of it, many people have misunderstood it.

"But if you are looking for venture capital... well, I understand, no matter what, let's try it out first, and look for various methods. Although venture capital is risky, venture capital will eventually take out all the shares... … "Although Gates knows that most of his investments are in energy companies, he is also a venture company after all. And if they don't accept it, there should be other venture companies.

It’s just that Gates doesn’t seem to know that, so far, most of the companies invested by venture funds have ended up being acquired by Catherine...

...

Three more completes, this chapter has been holding back...

^_^! .