Voice, Words and Sound in Heart of Darkness

Voice, words and voice in the center of the dark For Marlow, voice is the best symbol of civilization, understanding of civilization is expressed through words. It is meaningless that there is no word or expressing something with words. A psychedelic experience can not directly encourage people to face the collapse of the language (transcendence of the speech concept quoted in the introduction) and express the hidden truth of existence. Marlow noticed this - mostly through direct experience with Kurz - but he did not completely convince himself that the language failed.

"There is no darkness, darkness, no storm, because you are burned, not on the hill that you can touch, they have small voices and words, they will not tell them this, as beasts and mountains When you touch it, it will be stoned or pierced with darts: it is terrible to see, Moses said, I am a very terrible and earthquake :) but you came to Zion The heavenly general The mountain to the eldest son, the mountain to the church, the town of the living God, the Jerusalem in heaven, the countless angels, the judgment of God, and the spirit of the righteous are perfect. , Sprinkled blood, and the beer speak better.

Word selection is one of the easiest ways to distinguish between speech and one of the most dangerous ways. New writers tend to use big and good words that sound wisely. This is a word of five dollars. This means that in a scrabble game, the word is worth five dollars. No, please wait a bit ... Actually, this has no meaning. Scrabble does not include money? I'm not quite sure what kind of game I'm thinking, but please do it with me. If scrabble costs money, big words like pulchritudinous are worth five dollars and the word "cute" is probably worth it.

Today's synthesized sound such as Apple's Siri depends on the recorded natural sound library. A voice actor recorded a large number of words and syllables, and the software joined them and reconstructed them into dynamic sentences. However, until 30 years ago, computers could not create vocal "stick maps", says Patti Price, expert in speech recognition at Palti Alto, a linguist. At that time, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Dennis Cratt laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Crat is the godfather of Hawking voice. He bombed the throat with X-rays to measure the shape of the sound box. Because, after expressing some kind of sound, he developed a speech software model based on his voice, the Klatt model.