Project MELT: The Middle English Translator
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2013-05-08
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Project MELT is the Middle English Language Translator. For this project, our team created a functional, responsive, web-based application that converts Middle English (or English) text into a .wav file with correctly pronounced Middle English audio. A part of this project was the creation of a Middle English phemones table that uses machine learning components to "train" a server how to pronounce different terms in Middle English. In the end, we have found that we created a completely modular language system that can be ported to other languages to re-create and archive them digitally forever.
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To view the project or for more information, please visit http://project-melt.org. This project demonstrated the ability for portable digital audio archival and recreation. For this specific project, the Middle English language was used as an example. We were able to create a full audio transmission from any text file. The project uses 100% Unix sources such as espeak from CMU.
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english, middle, project, melt, M.E.L.T, translator, text-to-speech, audiobook, audio book, speech
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http://project-melt.org