Re: Free TTS engines
- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:35:06 -0500
Hi -- I bought several of the ATT natural voices along with text aloud a
while back. They indeed do sound more human than Eloquence, but speeding
them up makes them choppy, and so for screen reading I very much prefer the
more robotic synths.
Still, sending sound files to people or posting on a website for the general
visitor (not just blind persons who prefer listening at break neck speeds),
the ATT voices are nice. They also have synths for a variety of languages,
and text aloud lets you edit escape sequences in the text to switch to
different voices, or change rate / volume on the fly within the same
document.
Thought I'd pass it along... Happy listening.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Stefik" <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Free TTS engines
> Ok. Maybe I am used to it?
Yaa, could be. I could be imagining things too. What do you think
about voices like the AT & T natural voices? I've been thinking about
buying a license to use those, but I'm not sure. They definitely sound
pretty natural, but I don't know for sure if that is actually
desirable for a programming environment for the blind.
Here's a link if you don't know about these voices:
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
Andreas
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