rite, and it's not fare for a windows user to have a great speach system and another platform to have crap for speach!
Rock, Cory ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? > Hi Shaun, > On a whole using Sapi 5 voices is a good thing. It makes development > move faster and it is way more flexable than using pre-recorded speech. > Even i am sort of growning at going back to pre-recorded speech. > However, using Sapi tts engines has a dark side I wasn't aware of back > then. > One, Sapi 5 tends to be a rather unstable technology. While it seams to > work for most people I have had around 10 to 20 users where Sapi wasn't > working, and trying to get it working again was difficult and time > consuming. Usually, it was do to uninstalling or installing some Sapi > engine that broke the entire Sapi 5 architecture. > Second, I am going multiplatform and Java. Java currently doesn't have a > good way to handle Sapi 5 tts, and I don't want to have to pay extra to > support Sapi 5 in Java currently. I think the cost is unnecessary to > design a reasonably good game. > Third, since Raceway, Tomb Raider, and other games are scheduled to go > multiplatform adding things like Sapi would be catering totally to the > Windows market, and leave other operating systems in the dark on what to > use for tts. Probably FreeTTS something like that which is much lower > quality than say Scansoft. > The thing to do which is both multiplatform and can sound good is > packing my own speech with the game. Larger game size, but not to bad > since they will be packed and compressed in the games jar file. > > shaun everiss wrote: >> I think that there should be sound packs for those that wants them and >> sapi for those that it works with. >> I also like the current way things are being done, call me sellfish or >> whatever but everyting works here, but maybe its because I have realspeak >> on here rather than anything else. >> If I hadn't got rs loaded I'd be pushing for speech voices. >> Besides tom you were touting sapi as a really good thing when we did have >> voice packs and I was against that, now just when I am getting used to >> the small filesizes its like um, voice files again. >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
