Voice applications Skills: none IT concepts: history of network speech, voice over IP, speech...

Voice applications

Skills: none

IT concepts: history of network speech, voice over IP, speech synthesis (text to speech), speech recognition (speech to text)

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Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation (audio)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/science/25voice.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

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Voice applications

Skills: none

IT concepts: history of network speech, voice over IP, speech synthesis (text to speech), speech recognition (speech to text)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.