RE: Speech Synthesys

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not quite as good TTS as AT&T NV or NeoSpeech but not too bad. The male
voi=
ce is definitely better than the female.

Shame they don't do a Linux ver - would be nice to have something better
th=
an Festival for Asterisk.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Stephen McGarry
> Sent: 14 September 2005 11:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Speech Synthesys
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> There are British english TTS voices available from Scansoft ...
> http://www.scansoft.com/speechworks/realspeak/demo/default.asp
> Select Realspeak Solo, then English-Britsh, then try out some
sentences
> ...
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> They use the windows SAPI interface so should work with any program
that
> uses this.
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> The only problem is that Scansoft has no supply chain for individuals.
> (and before there is talk of a BB the minimun order is 1000 units!)
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> If anybody wants to obtain a copy of the Daniel voice I will see if my
> supplier is willing to resell the masses.
> Cost is approx =A350 for the TTS engine and a voice.
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> Stephen McGarry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Stuart Grimshaw
> Sent: 14 September 2005 08:46
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Speech Synthesys
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> Has anyone implemented anything in this area recently? What are the
> current
> engines like, or are people still using the old faves like IBM's
Crystal
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> Voice and Festival (for Linux)
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