RE: (ukha_d) AT&T voices with Homeseer

[peter.white@xxxxxxx]

Hmmm....now I'm confused....is there a difference between buying the voices
from
AT&T or Homeseer?  HS are doing the Mike & Crystal voices for
$56.95 at
http://homeseer.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PLST&Store_Code=H
S whereas AT&T seem to be doing them for $99 at
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/buy/tts_english.html#desktop.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: MIME:stainmar@xxxxxxx at INTERNET
Sent: 08 April 2002 09:28
To: White, Peter; ukha_d@xxxxxxx at Internet
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] AT&T voices with homeseer


Yes, it took me ages to sort out what you need to install/purchase to get
it
all working !!  On the positive side the voices are amazing, almost
too
realistic...........
1.     Make sure you have build 28 or higher of
Homeseer installed.
2.     Download the SAPI 5 Runtime  engine (text
to speech component only)
>from
<ftp://ftp.homeseer.com/pub/SAPI5TTS.exe> 
3.     Purchase online the 'AT&T
Natural voice text to speech Desktop
edition' from AT&T at $50
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/buy/tts_english.html
<http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/buy/tts_english.html> 
4.     Purchase online
additional voices if you want (Definitely
recommended) make sure you buy 16Khz ones. $49 per voice (same url as
above)

5.     AT&T ship via DHL and it seems to take about
10 days to get to the
UK
If you want to here the quality of the voices yourselves look at
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/index.html
<http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/index.html>  
You do need to install
of the software above, I thought I could just install
the runtime and the extra voices but you can't. Once you have the
software
installation is completely straight forward.
Hope this helps
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Future Homes [mailto:paul@xxxxxxx] Sent: 07 April 2002 22:10
To: Newsgroups
Subject: [ukha_d] AT&T voices with homeseer
Is anyone using the Crystal AT&T voice with homeseer? If so how do you
get
it or how do you get it working?

Tks