Metadata Adds Character

March 15, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Metadata Adds Character

Metadata is quickly becoming the indispensable factor in any successful technological adventure. This was evidenced yet again in Apple Insider’s latest article, “Apple looking to add character to text-to-speech voices.”

Using metadata from emails, texts and other types of communications, Apple has determined how a synthesized voice sounds in a text-to-speech system, and they have applied for a patent to prove their point.

Apple’s idea is different from the typical aid for visually impaired users, where the voice is generic. Their technology generates the most suitable speaker profile from the metadata it obtains from primary and secondary sources. Semantically speaking, they tailor it to the user to enhance the experience.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.