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16 lines
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## Goal
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The goal is to write a text to speech program, where all sounds are purely created through mathematical equations, in order to create my own true 100% machine speech synthesis.
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## Planning
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### Language
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The language is one of the most important aspects of this program and as such needs to be carefully chosen. The possible languages from which I wanted to choose from where German, English or Japanese.
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In order to help me which of those three languages I should choose, I came up with these requirements.
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- Small alphabet in order to minimise the amount of code required
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- Individual letters stitched into words together require no further processing in order to be understandable
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- The words need to be understandable even without proper or any emphasising at all
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I speak German and English fluently and they have a relatively small alphabet. In the end, I chose Japanese, because it may have a way bigger alphabet, but at least it is consistent in the way different combinations of letters create words.
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### Programming Language
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There are a many options, but to help narrow it down, I came up with these requirements.
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- functional programming (pure functions)
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- compiles to ELF
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