NETtalk is like teaching a computer to read and speak out loud, similar to how you might learn to read a book and then read it aloud to someone.
Imagine you’re learning to read a book for the first time. You start by recognizing letters and then gradually learn how to blend them into words and sentences. Over time, you get better at understanding the text and pronouncing it correctly. NETtalk works in a similar way but with computers.
NETtalk is a computer program designed to recognize written text and convert it into spoken words. It does this by learning from lots of examples of how letters and words sound when spoken. The program analyzes patterns in text and how those patterns correspond to speech sounds. By processing many examples, it learns how to accurately pronounce new words it hasn’t seen before.
In simple terms, NETtalk is about teaching a computer to read text and then speak it out loud by learning from many examples of text and speech. It’s like training a computer to become a reading and speaking expert.
