[bookport] Re: Amazing Voice

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  • Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:45:50 -0600

No, I checked, and it's Kerry all right.  There's way too much humanity in her 
voice to confuse it with a synthesizer.


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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Torpey
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Subject: [bookport] Re: Amazing Voice


This definitely seems like synthetic speech.  I would bet that it is AT&T
Naturally Speaking or something like it which uses a similar technology to
perform text-to-speech based on sampling from a human subject.  I recently
heard voices with similar quality from the samples provided on the Freedom
Scientific web site for their Sarat reading system.  Quite amazing - Too bad
this can't be done in a small unit like the Bookport with minimal processing
power.  This type of speech reproduction probably requires a fair amount of
horsepower.  Some day, we'll be there though!

-- Pete




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