text-to-speech API? SAPI?

[Phil Davis]

There is a world of difference in quality between voices included with 
the Windows OS and those available from third parties. When I was 
exploring this a few years ago, I discovered that Cepstral offered some 
higher quality voices for not that much money (relative to my need at 
the time). This was several years ago so I'm sure the market has 
changed, but you might check them out anyway:

     http://www.cepstral.com/demos/

HTH -
Phil Davis


On 3/4/10 4:58 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
>> Look at revSpeechVoices() and revSetSpeechVoice in the dictionary. There are
>> a bunch of different voices you can try,
>>      
> That's the first thing I did. I'm on XP so only have "Microsoft Sam".
> Not sufficient at all.
>
> Have also listened to Vista's "Microsoft Anna". So-so, but still too unnatural.
>
> Perhaps alternate voices aren't the solution...
>
> --
> Nicolas Cueto
>    

-- 
Phil Davis

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