if you want to adjust inflection and stuff like that, the best speech for that is the ibm viavoice outloud text to speech engine. Oh, and that may be a better choice for us people like myself majoring in language.
Josh > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Jerry Weinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 20:11:29 -0700 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Keynote Gold Speech >Dear jonathan, >I find Keynote Gold excellent in most cases. If I may offfer constructive >criticism, at high speech rates, the decTALK for me is clearer. And I agree >with you that this is subjective. Indeed, giving us, the end users, more >voices and adjustments upon these voices, would allow each one of us to tailor >the speech to our personal taste. I for instence, might be able to tweak >Keynote Gold so I could understand it at higher speeds. >One adjustment that I would like added, but do not see in any of the synthetic >or sampled speech is an adjustment on speech inflection. I might turn it >higher for fiction, and turn it lower for scientific journels. >Keep up the good work. >Sincerely, >Jerry Weinger >> ----- Original Message ----- >>From: Jonathan Mosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >>Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:21:01 +1200 >>Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Keynote Gold Speech >>Hi Linda. I've changed the subject line to reply to your comments about >>Keynote Gold speech. One thing we can certainly say about speech is that >>just as beauty is supposedly in the eye of the beholder, good synthesised >>speech is in the ear of the listener. I've used Keynote Gold speech for a >>long time now and as a user rather than a Pulse Data employee, I consider >>it the best speech there is. I say this because it's responsive, and the >>most accurate I have heard. If Keynote Gold mispronounces something, >>chances are very high that it's a typo. >>That said, yes we are actively pursuing widening the choice of speech >>engines to suit people's tastes. The voices you mention for example are >>digitised, rather than synthesised speech. They use tiny samples of human >>speech to construct the sounds you hear. They are excellent at normal >>reading speed when you're listening to a long document, but tend to be >>less desirable at very fast rates or when editing. So the more choice we >>can put in the hands of customers, the better. Hope this helps. >>Jonathan Mosen >>BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager >>Pulse Data International Ltd >>DDI: +64-3-373-6192 >>Fax: +64-3-384 4933 >>Mobile: +64-21 466 736 >>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Internet: www.pulsedata.com >>___ >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
