Hi Thomas,
I think its the way they trim silence off the recordings.
Tom is probably trimmed shorter than Heather.
Text aloud does have a feature that extends the pauses between words.
The tag is {{Pause=.5}} for half a second
Try tom on this sentence:
Climb {{Pause=.2}}Up {{Pause=.5}}Up {{Pause=.2}}Arrow.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Voice Output
Hi Phil,
I think you are right. I was relistening to various voice clips
earlier and I don't think it is the speech rate, but the fact Tom
doesn't seem to pause between words the way a human would. A human
usually takes a short breath between words, inserting a little pause
there, where Tom tends to run it all together. So Climb Up: Up Arrow
sounds like one endless string of words or sounds without a proper
pause between them. Heather on the other hand is set to the same
speech rate, but she pauses between words making it clearer to hear.
So I think I might be better off using a different Sapi voice that
pauses properly between words.
Cheers!
On 6/26/11, Phil Vlasak <p...@pcsgames.net> wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I am just not a fan of Scansoft Tom, as I think the voice is of lesser
quality than some of the others.
I noticed that some of the voices had larger download sizes and most of
the time, the larger the download the clearer the voice sounded to me.
I suspect that some of the voices were either recorded or converted to a
lower bit rate.
Originally they had 8 and 16 bit rates on the voices but recently I
noticed
some 24 bit that sounded much clearer.
If you are going to stay with Tom, I do have a few suggestions.
I think the main problem in understanding the voice is that the words are
blended together too much.
You could try increasing the pause between words from the Text Aloud
menu.
Or you could add a punctuation mark between some of the words.
In Actions_Selection2.wav
You have him saying
Climb Up: up arrow.
but it sounds like
climb upup parrow.
A colon does not pause the voice as much as a comma does.
I suggest adding commas in between words to make a sentence like this
clearer.
such as,
climb, up, up, arrow.
Phil
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