computerized speech

[Mark Swindell]

Thanks Phil.

ATT seems to have the best sounding synthesizer of those I could  
demo.   Much clearer than OS X's.  Not cheap, though.

I never use Windows... does XP  have built in speech as Macs do, or  
does one have to supply one with a Rev project to be sure TTS  
works?   What about earlier versions of Windows?

Anyone?

Mark




On Aug 9, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Phil Davis wrote:

> 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
>>