RevSpeak - a little less robotic?

[Sarah Reichelt]

> > I was wondering if there's a way to make the voice sound a little
> > more human.  I'm doing this on an iBook G4.
>
> Probably would be more flexible to use Applescript and the OSX Text To
> Speech, where you have a whole list of voices.  See System prefs:Speech
>

You don't need AppleScript to set the voice. Check out
revSpeechVoices() and revSetSpeechVoice. These work on Mac & Windows,
although when testing on Windows I have only ever found one voice
"Microsoft Sam" or something similar.

Some are better than others but they do all sound robotic because they
are generating the speech from text, not using sampled sounds. In
Leopard, the Mac voices are supposed to be getting an upgrade.

If you wanted to get better quality, you could record a real voice
saying the various words & letters and string them together with a
play command. Since you are using a fairly small set of sounds, this
would be a feasible way to go.

Cheers,
Sarah