Re: natural voices

  • From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:08:09 -0500 (CDT)

Can someone please rehash the steps needed to go through to make a 
SAPI5-complient voice work with JFW 5?

Bruce

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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Craig Goodenough wrote:

> Greetings!!
> The AT&T natural voices are a separate software Synthesizer that comply
> with the SAPI 5 speech standard.
>
> The cheapest place I have found for them, is http://www.nextup.com
>
> When purchasing from nextup, you must choose the AT&T voices as part of
> your purchase of one of their other products.  Nextup produces TextAloud
> MP3, WeatherAloud, NewsAloud, StocksAloud
>
> The package ships with two American english voices.  You can purchase
> other voices for an additional cost.  There are other languages
> available as well.
>
> When purchasing these voices, you can get them in either 8khz or 16khz
> versions.  The 16khz voices are very good, but you need to have a pretty
> good computer system to take full advantage of them.
>
> Nextup also has a series of voices that are referred to as the: Cepstral
> voices.  These voices are very good, but you must purchase each voice
> individually.  There are a variety of languages available.
>
> Purchase of these voices is done online.  Your local reseller may have a
> different method for getting them though.
>
> Cheers
>
> Craig Goodenough
>
>
>
>
>
> fioresq1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me something about this natural voices?  Does it work with
>> Jaws or is it a separate synthesizer that must run with another program?
>> Much thanks, in advance.  John Fioravanti, Jr.
>>
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