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1.The science behind making machines talk just like humans is very complex, because our speech patterns are so nuanced. 让机器像人类一样说话的科学是非常复杂的，因为我们的语言模式是如此精妙复杂。 2."The voice is not easy to grasp," says Klaus Scherer, emeritus professor of the psychology of emotion at the University of Geneva. 日内瓦大学情感心理学荣誉教授克劳斯·舍勒说：“声音是不容易掌控的。”  3."To analyze the voice really requires quite a lot of knowledge about acoustics, vocal mechanisms and physiological aspects. So it is necessarily interdisciplinary, and quite demanding in terms of what you need to master in order to do anything of consequence." “分析声音确实需要相当多的声学、声乐机制和生理方面的知识。因此，它必须是跨学科的，无论下一步想要哦做什么，都必须要先掌握好声音。” 4.So it's not surprisingly taken well over 200 years for synthetic voices to get from the first speaking machine, invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen around 1800 – a boxlike contraption that used bellows, pipes and a rubber mouth and nose to simulate a few recognizably human utterances, like mama and papa – to a Samuel L. Jackson voice clone delivering the weather report on Alexa today. 也难怪花了两百多年的时间，我们的合成声音才从最开始的1800年由沃尔夫冈·冯·开普伦发明的说话机器——这台机器是一种箱型的装置，用风箱、管子、橡胶嘴和鼻子来模拟几个明显的人类话语，比如妈妈和爸爸——发展到了塞缪尔·埃尔·杰克逊的今天在Alexa网站里播放天气预报的声音克隆技术。  5.Talking machines like Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa, or a bank's automated customer service line, are now sounding quite human. 像Siri、Google助手和Alexa这样的会说话的机器，或者银行的自动客户服务系统，现在听起来已经很像人了。  6.Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, we've reached a point where it's sometimes difficult to distinguish synthetic voices from real ones. 由于人工智能技术的进步，我们已经到了一个很难区分合成声音和真实声音的地步。 7.Sometimes, though, we don't necessarily want machines to sound too human, because it creeps us out. 然而，有时候，我们不一定希望机器听起来太像人，因为这让我们毛骨悚然。 8.If you're looking for a digital voice double to read an audiobook to kids, or act as a companion or helper for a senior, a more human-sounding voice might be the right way to go. 如果你正在寻找一个数字声音双倍速读一本有声书给孩子听，或者作为一个伙伴或一个老年人的助手，一个更像人的声音可能是正确的方式。 9."Maybe not something that actually breathes, because that's a little bit creepy, but a little more human might be more approachable," says user experience and voice designer Amy Jiménez Márquez, who led the voice, multimodal and UX Amazon Alexa personality-experience design team for four years. 用户体验和声音设计师艾米·吉姆·马尔克斯说：“也许不是真正那种有呼吸声的东西，因为这有点令人毛骨悚然，但稍微更像人一些可能会更平易近人。”四年来，他领导了语音、多式联运和亚马逊子公司Alexa的个性体验设计团队。 10.But for a machine that performs basic tasks, like, say, a voice-activated refrigerator? 但是对于一台完成日常基本任务的机器，比如语音激活的冰箱呢？  11.Maybe less human is best. 也许还是不要那么像人比较好。 12."Having something a little more robotic and you can even create a tinny voice that sounds like an actual robot that is cute, that would be more appropriate for a refrigerator," Jiménez Márquez says. 吉姆·马尔克斯说，“有更像机器人的声音的话，你甚至可以创造出一个听起来像真正可爱的机器人的声音，这对冰箱来说可能更为合适。” |
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