Re: french voices with jaws 10

  • From: "Zdenek Vopat" <zdenekvopat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:27:55 +0200

merci pour ton information. Tu est Français? Peut-être nous pouvons parler ensemble si tu veux.

Zdenek

----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Midence" <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: french voices with jaws 10


Hi,

I like Sebastien personally.  His is a French voice that uses the
pronunciation heard from people from France.  You can find him in the
RealSpeak Solo Direct voices page in the Freedomscientific website.
This pronunciation is the one with the widest international
acceptance.  If you're from Canada or will be spending time there, you
might try Virginie as hers is a Canadian French pronunciation.
Personally, I have a hard time understanding someone with this accent
because I haven't spent much time exposed to it.  I find I have to ask
quebecois to slow down a lot when speaking french and I've been told
by a Frenchman or two that they have to listen pretty close to them
too.  Honestly though, you want to try and hunt down a native speaker
to learn your french.  The anenberg cpb project has their excelent
French In Action course for free on their website after you register.
It'll be of far more use to you than any text to speech engine ever
conceived.  Pimsleur is also wonderful since it focuses exclusively on
audio language learning

Bonne Chance,
Alex

ps You're welcome to e-mail me privately to discuss this matter
further.  It's very easy to get off topic when this comes up.

On 8/2/09, Frank Siedlaczek <listen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!

I think the Acapela Voices (Infovox) are quite good. Visit there
homepage and try out some samples using your own text.

Here are the links:

http://www.acapela-group.com/french-38-text-to-voice.html

and

http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html

Regards
   Frank
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