Re: [Arm-netbook] your robotic overlord...

2016-08-01 Thread Cláudio Sampaio
Thank you very much for that reference. The voices there seem pretty convincing indeed. On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Matt Campbell wrote: > On 8/1/2016 2:09 AM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > >> Speakup seems to be another alternative; I’ve never used it. >> > > Speakup is not a text-to-

Re: [Arm-netbook] your robotic overlord...

2016-08-01 Thread Matt Campbell
I immediately recognized the text-to-speech engine that the video used. It's NeoSpeech (http://www.neospeech.com/). It's not free. And it's also not likely that the producer of the video used NeoSpeech directly; they probably used some other product that licensed the engine. I have no idea what

Re: [Arm-netbook] your robotic overlord...

2016-08-01 Thread Matt Campbell
On 8/1/2016 2:09 AM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: Speakup seems to be another alternative; I’ve never used it. Speakup is not a text-to-speech engine. It's a screen reader for blind users. As far as I know, the best libre TTS engine is MARY (http://mary.dfki.de/). Many of the voices ar

Re: [Arm-netbook] your robotic overlord...

2016-08-01 Thread Cláudio Sampaio
I do know festival/espeak but the problem with them is that their voices are too robotic, they are not well fit for replacing my own voice. What I found amazing about the video is that how it can be taken as a "real" voice, with credible emphasis and pronounciation. On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:09 AM,

Re: [Arm-netbook] your robotic overlord...

2016-08-01 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 08/01/2016 07:14 AM, Cláudio Sampaio wrote: > Hey Mr. Luke, > > I am a non-native english speaker which makes youtube videos about > open-source hardware and 3d prints and I have some trouble getting the > pronunciation right for my videos. Example: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74P-gIlsrE

Re: [Arm-netbook] your robotic overlord...

2016-07-31 Thread Cláudio Sampaio
Hey Mr. Luke, I am a non-native english speaker which makes youtube videos about open-source hardware and 3d prints and I have some trouble getting the pronunciation right for my videos. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74P-gIlsrE That synthesized/robot voice would really make things eas

[Arm-netbook] your robotic overlord...

2016-07-31 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSovHldr9Y this is great - it's a video done by Aban Tech, the voice is a robot but done quite well, i didn't notice until there were spelling mistakes and pronounciation errors :) --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 __