Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?

Hmm, it seems that voice synthesis is a pretty new field so all the good 
companies that make voice sinthesizers made their own research in order to be 
able to  create  their programs. So with other words, it is pretty hard to get 
into this field.

Octavian

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Perry 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:29 AM
  Subject: RE: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?




  Well don't believe that you can only have one voice active just because that 
is the only way it has been implemented in Narrirator and in the control panel. 
 I have had multiple active with no problems.  Espeak has its problems because 
well its a free speech program and while I think its great someone is working 
on one they obviously don't have all the skill behind the project.

  As to your question to Eloquence it uses its own proprietary interface like 
RealSpeak.  They both have a SAPI 5 interface but when ever you can use a 
speech engines proprietary interface you will have more control over the 
speech.  For example SAPI 5 really has no true control over the voices pitch.  
You can set it dynamically but if you want to set and leave it one way you 
can't really do that.  while Realspeak, Cepstral, Neospeak, Lequendo, AT&T, and 
Eloquence do have ways to set the pitch.

  I don't know of any books on just speech unless your talking more theory 
maybe they are out there I just haven't looked.  There are rappers out there to 
make using SAPI easier if you search but it really depends on what you want to 
do and what your willing to pay.  

  Ken 




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  From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
  Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:39 PM
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?


  Does anyone know what interface is used by Eloquence?

  It is not SAPI 4 nor 5, and it works better than a SAPI voice.

  The problem with the SAPI voices is that at a certain moment only a single 
SAPI5 voice can be active, and in order to change the voice we need to go into 
Control Panel/Speech, and changing the active voice there doesn't always work.
  For example, I've tried to use ESpeak sinthesizer, and I couldn't make it 
active but only by deleting all others voices from the Registry.
  And this was a problem also because Narrator doesn't work without those MS 
made voices.

  Does anyone know some books or tutorials for working with these things under 
Windows? But of course, not MSDN, because it refers only to ways of creating 
sinthesizers which are not used by any good company that creates sinthesizers. 
Information about creating sinthesizers that work under Symbian are also 
welcome.

  Octavian

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: inthaneelf 
    To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:41 PM
    Subject: Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?


    as an extra idea, you may want to go back to 
    SAPI 4, and research both at MS, and on the web, (added note, if you don't 
get it on Google, try web crawler, more than once, if I couldn't find it on 
Google, I found it with a web crawler search)



    there seems to have been more available for 

    SAPI 4 and it's agents, which might give you clues on how to approach it in 

    SAPI 5.  



    just a thought for you folks, 

    inthane 

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      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: black ares 
      To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:40 AM
      Subject: Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?


      ehe!
      it is not so easy even you want to make a concatenated voice not a 
formant one...
      I am trying now to understand how to make a voice for the language from 
my country
      I search for documentation, but it seems that this is a taboo subject 
because I didn't find nothing how to code speach.

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: alex 
        To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:09 AM
        Subject: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?


        Well I was wondering, 
        Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices?

        Like something that you speak a number of letters into a microphone 
then it gets an understanding of your voice and creates a sapi5 engine out of 
it?

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