computerized speech

[Phil Davis]

Mark -

Check out "Conversational Computers", an article on speech synthesis in 
Scientific American, June 2005, starting on p. 64. Among all else there, 
you'll find some excellent sources of additional voices offered by 
vendors like IBM, AT&T and many others. Some of the vendors let you 
download voices to try out (with 'nag phrases' inserted at the start of 
each speech), and some of the voices are *way* better than anything 
you've heard that comes standard on any computer. There are also voices 
for many non-English languages.

You can download the article (for a fee) at http://sciam.com/ .

Phil Davis



Mark Swindell wrote:
> Is Apple's built in text-to-speech the best there is or are there  
> alternatives that give more natural sounding results?  How about on  the 
> Windows side?
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
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