[access-uk] Re: Speech synths: what some of them sound like
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:47:08 +0100
Hi Ray,
I already told you that A T & T was good. This is nothing new to me
<Smile>. I am a voice junky.
All the best
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Subject: [access-uk] Speech synths: what some of them sound like
I've just come across this page on Veli-Pekka Tätilä site. He's a Finish
guy, but his written English is excelent. I also know he's a Spernova user
and of course he reviews orphious, but he looks at, or listens to, quite a
few others using MP3 samples of a passage from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the
Galaxy.
He's quite methodical in the way he makes the comparisons, but you may not
agree with his conclusions; after all there is always a subjective element
in one's liking, or otherwise, of synthetic speech. Its only when you've
lived with it for some time that you come to appreciate its strengths and
weeknesses.
So take a look at:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/reviews_of_speech_synths.html
I must say that I rather fancy Audrey, and she holds up well at fast rates!
So, I wonder, is it possible to use A T & T voices with some sort of SAPI
interface or whatever? Certainly, for reading long pasages of stuff I think
I cvould get along with a voice like that.
Ray
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