Re: best speech synthesizer
2018-03-04
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Re: best speech synthesizer I do have a registry tweek to make george available in sapi. you can find it on the balabolka website. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354557#p354557 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Interesting revisiting this topic now, since of course in the past three years I've changed computers, windows versions, screen readers and! Iphones. I still prefer a mail English synth and I'm still not keen eloquence for that reason, since the English accent sounds pretty horrible and the voice always sounds very robotic to me, (I confess I've never exactly got why so many people have a thing with Eloquence). .These days now that I've switched to Nvda as a main screen reader I use vocaliser realspeak daniel all the time With Windows 10 the reaction is fast enough, and I've found in the more recent versions that Daniel is far less likely to go choppy at high speeds (I've got him set to 100 as I write this), plus pronunciation for vocaliser has generally improved all around. I do still have a soft spot for OrphiuS alan human synth as I used it for so long, however though I have the Sam addon for NVda, i have found Orphius alan a little quiet compared to main system sounds, plus of course since I don't have supernova installed on my laptop I had to find a reasonable alternative, plus of course lady (who also likes mail English synths), wanted vocaliser for her laptop too.I'm a little sad that the only Uk English sapi default voice is Hazel, but still I don't mind using her for the odd sapi application that doesn't have Nvda output as she's not bad to listen to, not my favourite. I actually rather like the 64 Sapi voice George, though most sapi enabled applications I've run into that don't have Nvda output are 32 bit ones.ON ios I used siri mail for a long time, because for some very odd reason from Ios 9 onwards, Scansoft daniel started to sound horribly distorted, and I actually thought Siri mail was a better voice, however when checking voices on my Iphone 8 the other day I discovered they've added a few extra more human ones into the mix. In particular I love the voice oliver, who is much more a baritone than Siri, but is pleasant to hear and also comprehensible at a far faster speed, this also is nice because it means my Iphone and my lady's have different voices .I do wish it was possible to change the Alexa voice, since the default voice isn't bad, but I'd like it firstly to be a little faster, and secondly to be mail rather than female, actually some alexa skills do change the voice, I was rather amused when Yes Sire started with a fantastically plummy English voice which was perfect for a king's minister bringing problems to him . I don't know why but both my lady and I tend to prefer mail English synths in most cases. For me this makes sense since I tend to write as I speak, and I manifestly have a mail English speaking voice so reading what I write with an American synth would just very jarring, but in my lady's case I'm not sure, - though she admis she has always had a thing about Uk English voices indeed she apparently always used to want to marry an English tenor, funny how that one worked out . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354466#p354466 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer My preferred synthesizer is Eloquence using the US English Reed voice. I use it because it's the default voice JAWS uses and I'm used to it, it also doesn't hurt that in my opinion it's the best sounding voice out there.I also have Eloquence for Windows for games that use SAPI. For that synthesizer I use the US English Rolo voice with the pitch lowered a notch. It creates a deep voice that is perfect for games. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354420#p354420 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Who is the creator of the voice of Ava? I like her URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354406#p354406 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer On PC:1. Microsoft David2. Nuance Ava URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354380#p354380 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer yes i agree. maybe someday keynote gold will come to mame? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354375#p354375 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
2018-02-28
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Re: best speech synthesizer bump.some votrax ISA cards (personal speech system, type n talk) are now supported in mame.'you know what that means?time to pester petermach to try to make a driver that routes the dos output to mame's tts drivers! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354171#p354171 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer hello eloquence is very eloquent. it is more human like voices and it pronounces everything is very clearly. My second choice will be ava. I prefer google TTS for hindi. ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=242468#p242468 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
2015-12-12
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Re: best speech synthesizer I've used that voice in my tts series on sue and cristal productions as the voice of the bird scientest brian davidson. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=242406#p242406 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Writing for the third time, and after checking out again some other voices, I find Ava - US english from vocaliser expressive a truly nice voice and in my opinion it is the best English voice from nuance that doesn't sound robotic.Has anybody from here checked Brian - UK english from Ivona? It is a great voice to have. It has a good intonation and it is nice for reading books. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=242359#p242359 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Oh yes those good times that I wish I could turn back the clock and could go back to them! I did that once with my BNS, and no, I'm not kidding. People often thought I had a robot mouse inside my unit when I first started it up. I got lots of laughs in my classroom. Fortunately though I didn't get in trouble as my teachers also started laughing, and just for fun, I spent one whole day with pitch and frequency turned up all the way. It sounds crazy of me doing that sort of thing, I admit, but it was one of those times that you wish you could go back to and say, "I really did that?"Back on topic though, my favorite synthesizers would have to be ETI-Eloquence, eSpeak, DECtalk, MacinTalk, Orpheus TTS (both synthetic and natural voice types), SoftVoice due to how crazy you can get with that synth, Nuance Vocalizer, Acapela TTS, IVONA, and some Japanese language synthesizers like ProTALKER and VoiceRoid. I like using Alex on my iPad Air because of how human he sounds, especially when reading long passages of text. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=242152#p242152 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Lol yeah, that synth was great. The other thing you could do that was really amusing was to go into the speech settings, and play around with the pitch and frequency. If you set the frequency up to as high as it would go, then got the pitch just right, it was really funny to listen to. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=242067#p242067 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Oh, the good old days. My classmates back in either Pre-K or 1st Grade always thought it said, shyer, shyer, shyer, shyer when it actually said higher, but don't remember what they thought lower was. I even remembered one of my friends saying, "Play some music on that thing!" This was when I was typing up some notes back in 3rd grade or so. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241980#p241980 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Oh, didn't know you could use the siri voices with Ios 9. I've been hesitating to upgrade to Ios 9 for a few versions until the bugs are fixed and programs and games and such are upgraded to work with it, though of course I've got an Iphone 5, still it'll be good to see if those are available as I like the Siri male voice better even than Scansoft Daniel as I said. The Female is okay, but for some reason I've generally preferd male over female synths. I did use a braille n speak once as a teenager, but stopped when the wire got pulled out by someone running around the classroom and I lost a couple of weeks work. I can't say I thought much to the voice, though I did have fun experimenting with the voice, I still remember hearing the tone change as it said "chire, chire chire" or "Looer, Looer, looer!" . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241861#p241861 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer on espeak-general since Jonathan duddington seems to have gone I think soon a crowd funding campaign will be started and developers hired to greatly improve espeak with many more klatt voices, better phonetics more languages and so on. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241859#p241859 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer my first favorite is Keynote gold multimedia for windows3.1 win95 and windows98. second is eloquence, 3rd is vocalizer, 4th is decTalk. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241858#p241858 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer @luis I just sent you a PM with the Skype username.@ammericandad I honestly don't like the Echo too much. It's fun to mess with, but it's pronunciation tables are horrible. Same for the BNS synthesizer. The Votrax was used in a bunch of devices, and the BNS probably has the worst pronunciation tables. I heard that Artic synthesizers like the transport sounded just like a bns, but with waaay better pronunciation tables. I have never had the chance to hear one of those. The Accent had pretty good tables, the PocketBraille seemed to bemostly OK, and the Speakout I think had similar tables to the BNS. I can't remember anything else that used the Votrax, but I'm sure there are more. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241633#p241633 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Guillem I cant see your skype contact. So can you tell me what is your skype to add you? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241612#p241612 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
2015-12-06
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Re: best speech synthesizer my favorites are: eloquence, macintalk, softvoice, dectalk, text assist (the lh based version that comes with proty parrot), espeak (with mbrola), cereproc, orphius, cepstral, mstts5.x, acapella tts/ivox, artic/votrax (the one used on the old braille n speak), keynote gold multimedia, nv speech player, and the mother fucker of all vintage hardware synthesisers: echo2. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241602#p241602 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer I don't understand what you're trying to tell me. I am not interested in selling the synthesizer. If you are looking for samples, or information on it, you can ask me. If you wish you can add me on Skype, my skype name is up on my profile page. It may be a bit easier for you to talk in your native language, as well. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241522#p241522 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer OK, Dark, Don't make me fill annoying to me Guilevi, about the Cyber232, Well, If I try to call the national organisation for the blind, I think it is from spain, Right? If in my vacation jerny I have to travel from Panama to Spain, I'm really appreciated to by the sinth, but thers an alternative, bying it online? and SonoBraille included, maybee. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241521#p241521 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer @Dark, actually, you can use the Siri voices with VO with iOS 9. I personally like the UK female voice.@Luis, I don't understand why you need my address to develop these synths for NVDA. I doubt you can still get Ciber232/232P boxes. I got my 232P from my dad who used to own it, and the 232 was given to me by the national organization for the blind, together with the Sonobraille. They are fully external synthesizers, so there is still no way to emulate them. I do ahve a driver that I made so that NVDA can send the right stuff to the synth to make it work, but you still need the hardware and the cables. I do live in Spain, but I don't see how all the other information is relevant to you at this point. If you can find a way to obtain a BNS or a Ciberveu, I can help you set it up via Skype or some other chat service so that you can use them with NVDA. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241516#p241516 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Moderation! I would strongly advise against revealing personal information on this forum. The forum is of course viewable by the public on google. While there's no need to be paranoid, at the same time, you don't know who could be reading this even if you trust the identity of whomever your talking to. Myself, I would suggest that if Guilevi and Luis want to exchange details the two of you start communicating via e-mail and share personal information slowly, the operative word being share, perhaps even have some phone conversations before you start giving out addresses. Either way, I'd very much be against this being done on the forum for reasons of protection. As to synths, to be honest I've not used many. I used to have an appolo box running orphius on an old acer machine, but that was back in the nineties. Other than the windvision thing, that was the only external synth I ever used. Actually, it's a funny story, sinse in one histor y lesson while plugged in the appolo literally melted due to a faulty wire. The scary thing is had I charged my laptop the previous night it probably would've done the same at midnight in my house with everyone asleep which wouldn't have been good. In general with synths I've found the ones that work for me, ie, scansoft daniel and Orphius. I wouldn't deliberately experiment with others for the hell of it, but if another turned up to try I'd give it a go with an open mind, eg, when I upgrade my Iphone (which possibly might happen with the 7 series depending upon what advantages they have over the five), I'll give alex and the other voices a go to see if there is something preferable to Daniel, though I'm rather sorry the siri voice can't be used for vo on the phone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241301#p241301 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Guilevi, talking about the bns2000 and cyber232: In this year they sell that synts, so I can by it. I think that you are in Spain, but tell me your full name to find you, your sity, your province, ETC to travel on to use it with NVDA. It's because I want that 3 or so synts that We want to develop for NVDA. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241210#p241210 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Ah. You must have had a Prose2000 then. They were quite damn rare, I think. Nowadays perfect Paul seems to be the default voice for everything.I haven't had much experience with external synthesizers. I have a BNS2000, which is pretty responsive but has problems with it's buffering; a Ciber232 and Ciber232P, which are both ridiculously unresponsive although the 232P has a pretty cool voice; an Eureka A4, which I need to find a way to get to work because I don't know the speech commands; and a Sonobraille, which is actually very responsive, even more than some software synthesizers. Which is quite ironic because that one is the only one I have which is using software synthesis itself. I'll have to see what happens when I get this VoiceNote.Another fun synthesizer is SoftVoice. if you know the right commands, you can really mess with the way it talks. It's intonation may be a little weird, but it's fun to mess with. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241187#p241187 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Ah, I must've got things wrong then. Back in about 2000, I temporarily used a very short lived screen reader called wind vision that came with a voice synth "perfect paul" which was the exact one Steven hawkin uses, I assumed that was decktalk, but I could be wrong. Sadly the hardware box for the synth died a death about two months after I got the thing, and I switched back to supernova, indeed it turned out that the features I liked in windvision were in fact in supernov already, Ijust hadn't known how to use them previously. The only major advantage windvision had, is at the time because it was a hardware synth, it was very! quick and responsive, though I believe synths have now caught up due to improvements in technology.I'm afraid I disagree on synthetic dave though. I used Dave for years, right from when I first started with windows 3.1 and Supernova version 3 in 19994 at the age of twelve. Personally, I was glad to get shot of him asap .I used to have a rather fun game trying to emulate the 1960's "you shal be like us!" of the original cybermen with Dave. It wasn't quite doable, sinse Dave doesn't emphasise the ends of words quite the way the sixties cybermen did, but you could do a pretty good job . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241175#p241175 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Ah, I must've got things wrong then. Back in about 2000, I temporarily used a very short lived screen reader called wind vision that came with a voice synth "perfect paul" which was the exact one Steven hawkin uses, I assumed that was decktalk, but I could be wrong. Sadly the hardware box for the synth died a death about two months after I got the thing, and I switched back to supernova, indeed it turned out that the features I liked in windvision were in fact in supernov already, Ijust hadn't known how to use them previously. The only major advantage windvision had, is at the time because it was a hardware synth, it was very! quick and responsive, though I believe synths have now caught up due to improvements in technology. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241175#p241175 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Indeed it is fun. I do prefer Dave over the "natural" orpheus voices, but that might just be because I'm more of a formant synthesis person for most things.DECtalk is not what Stephen Hawkin uses. He is actually using the voice that was in the Prose2000, which was actually a synthesizer that I think some blind people used back in the day. Some people in the MESS project are actually working on emulating that thing. I kind of like it. It sounds a bit like TruVoice, but the voice quality is better. The only problem is that it sounds like something is pinching it's nose all the time.@FamilyMario TrippleTalk has the same voices as DoubleTalk, I believe. The only problem is that they are really overpriced for what they are. Hell, I could technically still buy a Doubletalk LT from RCSystems themselves, but they're not worth it at the moment. I might try to get just the RC8660 and hook it up to a Raspi0 or something, that would probably cost abo ut $60 as opposed to the $180 for a new DTLT or trippletalk. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241131#p241131 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer @guilevi, I do agree Synthetic dave has changed quality in intonation, but to be honest I never liked Dave anyway. Pronunciation is okay, but the voice has always been far too robotic for me to appreciate. Supernova stopped shiping with Dave as the default orphius voice in I believe version 5.8 or so (you could select him if you wanted), but then for some confusing reason in version 8 they went back to Dave and Alan was an extra. When I asked Dolphin why they said people preferd Dave, though that just seems nuts to me. Oh well, I've got archived copies of all the orphius Us and Uk voices to use with supernova so no problem, indeed though i do like Alan, Carol I find really annoying. Decktalk I can see the attraction for, especially because decktalk is the synth Steven Hawkin uses, though I never liked Decktalk on any long peace of text, the intonation when doing an extended sentence or several linked sentences just doesn't work for me, not compar ed to orphius or vocaliser.I've only ever heard the American Espeak, and no, just no! I'd rather have microsoft Mike or MAry, or hell even Sam than that .Actually, while Ms Sam is a cruddy voice, it's great to take the micky out of. I remember an occasion when my sapi was buggered and the only voice I could run with it was Ms Sam. I was in the shower when a couple of friends of mine visited (this was back in 2006). Yelling through the bathroom door, I instructed them to start up Jim Kitchin's game of life, which we then played. This lead to a wonderful joke which we still do occasionally born of hearing Ms sam say "you may play the market if you own stock, but you dan't!" So these days "but you daaan't!" has become a bit of an amusing thing . Bad synths may be bad to listen to, but they're hilarious to take the micky out of, . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241124#p241124 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Eloquence, followed by Espeak, then Dectalk. They may not sound too human, but as others have said they have actual inflection. I can't stand reading a book with the Evona or Vocalizer voices, but if I slow down Eloquence Reid enough it's tolerable. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241110#p241110 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Have you considered the option of getting the TripleTalk series of synthesizers? The voice quality is exactly the same as DoubleTalk, just with more voices. The only option that is available is the TripleTalk USB Mini since the original TripleTalk is discontinued by Access Solutions. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241105#p241105 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer I tend to switch synthesizers and languages all the time. On the Mac side of things. I'm usually using either Alex or Monica Compact. Monica Compact isn't all that natural, but I like the fact that it can go quite damn fast and still be perfectly understandable for a Vocalizer voice. Eloquence Spanish honestly sounds very very weird, especially the intonation which makes it sound like a very angry and depressed person if you listen to it carefully, but loads of people still use it, including myself. I do like Eloquence US English, but I've never liked the UK one. ESpeak has the opposte problem, the UK voice is OK and is very understandable and responsive, but the US voice honestly sounds fake as hell. I like natural voices for reading articles and books and such, so I usually go for either Vocalizer or Acapela when I can. They have great voices, although t heir Spanish ones are outdated as hell. The one thing they do have is a Catalan voice, which I'm thinking of buying at some point in my life.I also like older versions of DECtalk, their intonation and voice quality are very nice.If we go into older weirder synthesizers, I really love Keynote Gold, although it's pretty much impossible to use that on a newer system. I also like the Doubletalk. it's intonation has a very strange pattern, but the voice quality is just great. Also bassy as hell. I'm actually trying to get a hold of one of those.Another synth that I kind of like is Audiologic, which is very rare. I only have it on my Sonobraille, which is a spanish notetaker. I can use it as a synthesizer under Windows, but I'm wondering if anyone here has the libraries to use it with NVDA. I know there is a driver for it, I even had the sou rce somewhere, but it does require some DLLs. Maybe someone from Italy in this community can help me find it.To be honest with you I actually used to like Orpheus's intonation. I would actually be using synthetic dave quite a lot more if they hadn't made him all monotone and meh in newer versions. You can still adjust the intonation somewhat but you can't get the full sound of older versions. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241102#p241102 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Other than reaction speed, I've not noticed that much difference in vocalizer daniel and the old scansoft daniel, then again I'e heard a lot of that voice sinse it is on my Iphone, my sapi and if I wish supernova (another reason I like Orphius alan for Sn so I'm not listening to daniel all the time). Actually Afrim your message with schedule etc read fine with Orphius, (it definitely says shed you al, not sked you al. I don't know what it is with eloquence, it's just the English vowels sound rong to me and the voice is a little more synthetic than orphius human ones. The first time I heard Daniel, he reminded me of a Bbc news reader, so i agree with you on propper pronunciation there Afrim, indeed if you've heard my podcasts you know I speak a little like Daniel myself .I find orphius at a higher speed good too, while that is on e of my problems with Daniel, if the speed is too high the words get choppy, then again i tend to find there is a point with synths where if the speed increases too much, while it still can be understood, it just sounds tense and harsh and unpleasant.I've not yet as I said found a synth that actually does justice to dialogue and poetic writing, particularly with writers who are very careful about sentence structure, indeed when I write poetry myself I am always extremely finicky with punctuation and usually speak the poems out loud to get the right sense of things rather than relying just on a synth to see the rythm, Though that being said, I'll say Daniel works well enough for the Cog and Hg games and similar, and I have been playing gamebooks like Lone wolf and ffproject with Orphius for years so it's not all bad, although I'm still waiting for that natural synth.I'll admit though, I haven't experimented too much with most of the s ynths. Eloquence I've tried, sinse it's on various devices and these days even comes with supernova, and I've heard some of the acapella and espeak voices, but in general once I got a copy of Daniel to use with Sapi I was reasonably happy and didn't go experimenting too much. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241031#p241031 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Like most people, I prefer Eloquence for everyday use. It responds the best when cranked up to a high rate. Well, Espeak does as well, and if you play with variants you can get it to sound a little less grating, but I still don't care for it much.I also really like Vocalizer Expressive Oliver. I actually think he sounds a bit better than Daniel, and Daniel is a nice voice too. I also like Loquendo Simon. he's the only TTS voice I can think of who reacts reasonably well to punctuation besides Eloquence. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241027#p241027 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer @Dark,I'd recommend you take a look at acapela UK voices, especially Peter (happy, motivational.)It is an old dialect spoken in England, but it sounds really nice and it has a good intonation.Also Ivona is doing a great job on their voices. Check out Ivona Amy UK or Brian, but Amy is the best. Vocaliser expressive Daniel, however, is the one whom I truly consider the best UK voice which pronounces words in a British accent. Again, not real speak, but vocaliser expressive.I did a few tests with Daniel by using some words that most of the synthesisers mistake them for American pronunciation, and Daniel did a good job. For example, I started with schedule and Daniel says it as it should, (with sh, as in shock, and not with sk, as in skeme). Also, I heard from BBC reporters and some other podcasts saying "privacy", (with an I, not why). so I mean something like privacye.Also, I find Daniel very comprihensive when reading texts but hon estly none of the present synthesisers that we use nowadays do not make mistakes. They are stil not able to read symbols in accordance with their intonation. For example, all synthesisers apart from Eloquence cannot give a good intonation when a sentence or a paragraph consists of punctuation marks like exclamation mark or comma.Something I detest from some companies like google, is the attitude to create TTS whose size is not bigger than 15 MB. Those text-to-speech softwares do not either read those symbols I mentioned above, nor provide integration with shortenings or emoticons that are being widely used everyday. The problem is not memory nowadays, I think, but it is their lack of work and devotion on these synthesisers that make them truly robotic. When I read, I want to hear a voice that can bring on emotions, and you want to really and happily listen to it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=240984#p240984 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer No, the Siri male voice is not Alex. He was never part of Siri. He can only be available on the iPhone 5S, the iPhone 6, the 6 Plus, the 6S, and the 6S plus on the iPhone side. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=240983#p240983 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer I must confess, I'm really not! a fan of eloquence, mostly because sinse I write very much the way I speak I like a Uk English Synth, and Eloquence attempt at an English accent is just wrong! I still myself prefer orphius human sounding voice Alan for supernova, (not the default synthetic dave one, the one which is now archived on Dolphin's site), sinse I find it the best compromise between speed of reaction (something I really need when typing fast), and being pleasant to listen to and not sounding like a cyberman . I also like the fact that Orphius is a great synth for pronouncing fantasy names correctly and coping with complex words (it's one of the few synths that can pronounce a lot of the Lotr names such as Theoden).Otherwise, I tend to like Realspeak Daniel, which I also use on my Iphone and for Sapi. I could stick on vocaliser and use it fo r supernova, but while vocalizer's reaction is faster than the old realspeak solo versions used to be, it's still not as fast as Orphius, plus, while great to listen to, I still find some of Daniel's pronunciation choices rather off, especially where letters or acronyms are concerned, for example it amuses me when I'm seting sapi in a program like vipmud to be told by Daniel "you have selected manuscript sapi" . If the Siri voice on the Iphone is Alex, then that is awesome! however sinse I still have the Iphone 5 I haven't experienced Alex yet other than with Siri. Generally speaking I prefer male synths with a Uk English accent, although for my victor I use the female voice Rachel as I find the male voice Graham really! grates on the nurves, although Rachel does sound rather as if she's stoned .All of this is preference of course. I'm still waiting for the day when a synthesizer manages to get the word pause and cadences in speech correct enough for me to want to read actual fiction with poetry and dialogue with one. It's not happened yet, well not with the generation of synths around realspeak, but I believe it will at some point sinse synths are improving all the time, (the Siri voice is definitely a step up even from Daniel). URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=240947#p240947 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer I like softvoice because there are so many parameters you can adjust. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=240933#p240933 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer get it in spanish! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224594#p224594 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer why not sign my petition to bring back keynote gold? it is in the off topic forum. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224502#p224502 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer My favorite is Keynote gold multimedia multilingual, followed by eloquence. I think keynote gold has the clearest speech. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224501#p224501 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer hi,me, I like eloquence, and neospeech Julie. she is very human sounding. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224060#p224060 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer Keynote gold, Loquendo, Acapela, Vocalizer expressive, I like Vocalizer Expressive because it has loquendo voices! cool nuance! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224052#p224052 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Alex is a great synthesizer. Ivona voices are great but I don't know why do they allow us to use only one voice per language in android. Brian is a good voice as well. But I love Amy UK voice from there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224041#p224041 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer Hello.My first choice is Alex. I use Alex all the time on my iPhone and Mac. If I could have him for Android and Windows I would. My second choice is Ivona Salli. I also like Ava, but if Salli was available for Android, iOS, or OS X, I would use her. iOS will never happen unless Apple opens up the tts system to allow third party engines. I'm not sure why Ivona won't provide all the voices on Android. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224030#p224030 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Eloquence always if I can. I've found nothing that can rival its responsiveness and voice quality, and it sounds better than espeak. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224023#p224023 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer @IronCross, It's not that ivona voices lag, but it is the Ivona TTS engine which lags. It is not so fast indeed.Ava, in my opinion, is the best vocalizer expressive voice which reads so sweetly and friendlily.In the latest version Ivona engine for android made an improvement by enhancing the speed at which it navigates, but it still needs a lot of work on it. The speed can't be compared to vocalizer expressive for android, or that vocalizer Ex somebody created. That's why I use Daniel. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=224018#p224018 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer 1. Eloquence, Reed, JAWS default voice, I've listened to a lot of voices, and so far, none have been as easy to listen to or understand.2. Whatever the default Siri and VoiceOver female voice is. I'd absolutely love it if I could get Eloquence, Reed on my iPhone and iPod Touch. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223998#p223998 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer Eloquence's Wade's voice is greater. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223993#p223993 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer I have vocalizer ava on the mobile, and it works great, the ivona voices lag, but my device is kind of old so that doesn't mean they would on a newer device. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223984#p223984 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer Eloquence as others stated is in the first place for sure and the reasons are already known.In the second place for me is Ivona Amy UK. Daniel from vocalizer expressive voices is close to Ivona, but I use ivona mostly when reading any long article. However on my phone I use Daniel as a primary TTS.I myself love high quality voices so Ivona suits my needs quite well. So everything that is high quality I may give a try but I never use eSpeak, for instance. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223970#p223970 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer I (again?) like elaquonce. It was my first sinth and so I can understand it the most and am used to it. Some voices sound pritty human, but I use Read that doesn't sound so "human-like", but I like it. I like ounly US english, not UK one.The next one would be dectalk. It sounds pritty human and you can even make it sing! (I'll never do that myself but listening it is great, heh) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223963#p223963 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: best speech synthesizer I like Keynote Gold and all the sinthesizers! josh, this is amazing! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223959#p223959 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Oh this will turn into fight fest 5000 I'm sure...I like Eloquence, I always have, it's probably the most realistic non-human synth ever made. Even though I like the Vocalizer voices, they're just not "expressive", and I find that a lot. Most voices don't react to punctuation, or barely do. Second to eloquence would be vocalizer Ava, she sounds hot. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223951#p223951 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
best speech synthesizer
best speech synthesizer Well, I just want to find out (post replies in this order):1. Which is your preferred speech synthesizer?2. Why do you use this synth?3. Which is the next best alternative.You can be specific with voice, language, etc. but no arguments, please. My answers are eloquence, because it actually sounds like a person when it comes on to punctuations, and vocalizer expressive Samantha premium high comes in second. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=223949#p223949 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
