Somali speech synthesis for clinicans
Professor Harold Somers of the University of Manchester demonstrates his system where a speech synthesiser using another language (in this case, German) could be used by doctors to communicate in Somali to their patients.
0:30 Introduction
1:10 How speech synthesis can help doctor-patient communication
2:00 Ways that the system can specifically help Somalians
2:35 Why existing speech systems need to be 'hacked' for the language
3:25 Examples of synthesised speech compared to the real thing
4:05 Using it in doctor-patient interviews, and results
4:55 Unusual words and phrases that occasionally posed difficulty
5:45 Conclusions; is this useful in a clinical setting?
6:15 Issues with scalability to other languages
Download Podcast: somalisynthesis.mp3
Duration: 7:23
Length: 7088750
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