Re: Homeseer

["Neil F" <automated@xxxxxxx>]

Andy,

Try these voices...
http://download.microsoft.com/msdownload/sapi/4.0/rtw/4.0a/en/msttsa22L.exe

I find "Mary in Hall" particulary appealing ;)

Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brown, Andy [Infrastructure]" <andyb@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Homeseer


> Which bits of it did you abandon?
>
> I've played with Dragon which was quite impressive on the recognition
front.
> I understand you can replace the MS SAPI stuff in Homeseer with
another
> recognition engine.
>
> I just want to replace the text to speech engine - it's horrid!
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 May 2001 16:01
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Homeseer
>
>
> Andy,
>
> Played with it, abandoned it!
>
> I got a homevision instead, and am planning to add voice recognition
later,
> when the technology improves...
>
> Mark Harrison
> Head of Systems, eKingfisher
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brown, Andy [Infrastructure] [mailto:andyb@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 4 May 2001 15:45
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Homeseer
>
>
> Downloaded Homeseer the other night and I'm very excited by it.
>
> Within 15 minutes I was turning my bedroom lights on and off by voice
> recognition (my wife even managed it, but only after affecting a
> particularly dodgy cockney accent - it was half trained by me and
she's a
> Brummy).
>
> Anyway - wending slightly OT, anyone know of any better text to speech
> synthetic voices?  The MS agent ones are horrible and I don't think
its
too
> impressive to have Stephen Hawking answering you back all the time.
>
> I guess I could disable the text to speech and play back some
pre-recorded
> wav files?
>
> Any one else played with this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
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