computerized speech

[Charles Hartman]

And is there any way to convince the TTS system -- on Mac or Windows  
-- to stress a word differently (or more strongly) than the internal  
dictionary tells it? (Recent example from the news: do we say  
"SUBmariner" or "subMAriner".) Is this something that can be  
controlled through Rev's interface to the speech system?

Charles


On Aug 9, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
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