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They also train for the material the stick is hitting. But yeah, it's sound transfer, not synthesis from scratch. But that's also the approach of current speec

• mwcampbell 10y ago
  > But that's also the approach of current speech synthesis algorithms and works better than trying to create the waveform from scratch. I don't think it's that simple. Speech synthesis by concatenation does produce more natural-sounding results, at least until you notice its quirks, so casual users tend to prefer it. But I know some heavy speech synthesis users, specifically blind programmers and power-users, and they tend to prefer parametric synthesis, because it's more intelligible at high speeds.