Russian IT company Yandex started his experiments with automatically-generated poetry in 2006, and seven years later, the company presented the project “Autoboat”. The peculiarity of this algorithm allows it to accurately determine the stress and phonetic transcription of search requests of Yandex users to create an unusual poetry. And just recently, autoboat learned to read their works aloud, with all relying in such cases expressiveness.
Autoboat Yandex for the period of its existence, generated from search queries Russians a lot of poems, which, in principle, can even be combined into a hefty collection. Of course, these verses sound a bit absurd and even funny, but the essence of the project was the fact that even the most unusual of phrases the robot could create a work in the spirit of the famous poets like Mayakovsky, Pushkin or Agnes Barto. Now autoboat found his own voice, which was not recorded using speakers or voice actors. He from the beginning to the end computer generated.
The technology of speech synthesis Yandex refers to the software package SpeechKit that the company is developing for the past few years. In addition to scoring the texts, SpeechKit knows how to recognize it, perform the semantic analysis of heard and also to control various applications by using your voice. The voice of automata was configured so that his intonation and timbre most closely match his unusual creativity. You can appreciate the poetry created by the Yandex robot, performed by the author by clicking on the link to the official website.