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| | Popular Science | Yamaha Vocaloid |
 | | Synthetic vocals have never even come close to fooling the ear, and outside of certain Kraftwerk chestnuts, robo-crooning is offputting. |
 | | But that has changed with Yamaha's Vocaloid voice synthesis software, which does an uncanny job of mimicking the human voice by using a library of every phoneme (component sound) in the English language in every possible emphasis pattern (e.g., the "eh" sound of both "pen" and "leg" along with every other way it's spoken). |
 | | With this software, producers will be able to program a tune, type in the lyrics, and then hear eerily realistic synthesized "singing"--just like the latest Britney Spears CD, but with less midriff. |
| www.popsci.com /popsci/bown/2003/article/0,18881,537115,00.html (152 words) |
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