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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Man, that whitch voice is going to be useful for my tts series so that it actually has a real threatening antagonist for once. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340094#p340094

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions If you're talking about Voxygen, think of it like MacinTalk Alex and the breathing, yeah, you know which voice I'm talking about. It's a similar situation with the Witch voice, in that it does it when it encounters certain phrases, j

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions All right, so I went to the play store on my computer and pushed it to my Android. Once it's installed, how do I get it to express emotions?Will it express emotions automatically based on randomness or patterns? Will it read prompts normally or wi

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hmm, interesting. I didn't know Loquendo was once available for Android. BTW, @FamilyMario I just sent you a PM. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=339238#p339238 ___ Audio

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Loquendo can also do that. Yes, Loquendo was also available for Android at the time, but it's no longer on the Play Store, and the only publicly available English voice is Susan. That doesn't mean you won't be able to find the Andro

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions I looked on Grossgang, but I didn't see it.Also, back in 2015, I listened to a PG13LP podcast for Monkey Business, and I heard someone's phone vibrating, and I knew they were using the Yeti UsB stereo microphone. The voice kept talking, a

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions [[wow]], it's amazing how much TTS has changed in the last few years. We now have 2 versions of sapi5 eloquence, (both from code factory and the free version on grossgang.com), and the sapi5 Sam Mike and Mary voices work on windows Vista and up. J

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Well, that information may refer to android. They are not selling anymore voices, but the number of voices is highly restricted. You get only one voice per language, which is much annoying. While on PC, you have a large number of voices, at least in

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions ah, I see. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210126#p210126 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions I don't know what the deal is, but I saw on Twitter somewhere, a few months back, where Ivona quietly stopped selling to consumers.This does NOT! NOT! NOT! mean the voices are abandonware, they are almost certainly still selling to businesses that

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions if they're not sell their product anymore, will ivona abandonware? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210121#p210121 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabah

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hmm, nod, I think I saw it somewhere while searching for voices. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210098#p210098 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Not such strange, I saw it too. No more than a week ago. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210074#p210074 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Strange, because last time I checked, they were still selling the voices. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210047#p210047 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Actually, I think Ivona recently stopped selling to consumers, so you couldn't buy a copy even if you could afford it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210046#p210046 ___ Audio

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Indeed, I was meaning to use Eloquence with SAPI5 but since its not available, I might as well stick to realspeak.Sadly... it only works with JAWS, and won't work with games that don't support screen readers. Evona is commercial and i ca

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hello Kenzon,Why would you need to create a modification to get real speak solo direct voices work with sappy 5? If you are using jaws, they automatically create a voice profile, and you can easily access it by installing and restarting your freedom

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Well, is the sapi4 of eloquence though. but It doesn't available for sapi5 though. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210011#p210011 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audio

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions UPDATE TO MY PREVIOUS TOPIC:Hello guys,I was just wondering whether there's a SAPI version of Eloquence? Thing is, I had Anna and eSpeak, but I'm more used to Eloquence speaking. Some games use SAPI, and since there are no screen reader

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Yeah, I've noticed. Particularly with Macintalk Alex -- it's good in earlier versions of Mac, but it's now sounding very weird. Yes, Nuance bought almost all TTS voices, and they didn't want to sell it to individuals, which is an

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hi.Has anyone noticed that all these tts voices are being destroyed?Stupid Nuance bought out Loquendo and completely destroyed the voices. They don't even have all the voices in Vocalizer and the ones that are present have the emotional

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions You can get loquendo SDK for free though if you do a google search... but this is not legal to obtain... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187860#p187860 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Yeah, loquendo is now own by nuance. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187859#p187859 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions I'm afraid you can't buy Loquendo anymore. In 2010, Nuance Communications purchased Loquendo, and as such, the company had to pay a fine, and as such, the Loquendo site is down, and if you try to go to the site via www.loquendo.com, it wil

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Yeah right. But why I'm disappointed is because, to my knowledge, only Laquendo can make expressions like sad, happy etc and other speech synthesizers can't. Just thinking of doing some funny sequences with it though I don't think it&#

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Yeah, but they are not so good at all. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187850#p187850 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Well screw it. I can't buy Laquendo because I'm still a 14-year-old and my money isn't handled by myself. Not to mention the SDK thing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions I think if you buy loquendo, the SDK will shipping with that as well. so maybe it isn't free I'm afraid. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187847#p187847 ___ Audiogames-reflect

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hello there,Is Laquendo and the SDK thingy free? I really want to try it but I'm still a junior high school student so I don't have the money to afford almost anything. Can anyone answer please? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtop

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions has anyone uploaded the sdk themselves? the only thing I remember was the tts director, which is not accessible. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187772#p187772 ___ Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions To make Loquendo voices do the expressive tags, you must have the ?Loquendo TTS SDK. When you install Loquendo, you should see a program group in your Start Menu called "Loquendo". Look somewhere, and you should find Voice Experience within t

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Oops, must be a typo. I don't think Laquendo can sing but I typed way too fast there. What I'm trying to say is that Laquendo can express moods well. Anyways, thanks for the informations and replies. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtop

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions I never heard of ecantarix, but that's because I'm not a Linux user. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187672#p187672 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions How is it possible to make Loquendo sing or do anything? last time I had it I was not able to do it. I'd really like to try it. O:-) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187648#p1

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Here is an answer to a few questions.2. There are a few speech synthesizers that CAN sing other than DECtalk and Loquendo. The Original SoftVoice, formerly known as Willow Pond TTS,  had singing support, but I do not know the commands. The SpeakWindow

Re: Some speech synthesizer questions

Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Here is an answer to a few questions.2. There are a few speech synthesizers that CAN sing other than DECtalk and Loquendo. The Original SoftVoice, formerly known as Willow Pond TTS,  had singing support, but I do not know the commands. The SpeakWindow

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hello,But wouldn't putting the files in the appropriate directions and register the DLLs illegal though? And OK, sorry about that. I don't know asking real speak solo for SAPI5 is illegal, sorry. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtop

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions You can actually get the SAPI 5 version of Mike, Mary and Sam to work on newer versions of Windows. You have to manually put the files in the right place, then register the DLL's and add a few registry entries. Tyler Spivey showed me the proced

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hello,Unfortunately I didn't have JAWS9. If you want to distribute the voices but you don't want to do it on this forum, you can PM me or send me a forum email. Thanks for the answers. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=1873

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Kenzon Yeoh, okay below I have created a question and answer reply to your message in post 1 as best I can answer them.1. Can we use the SAPI5 version of Microsoft Sam, Mike and Marry on windows7 instead of the SAPI4 ones?Absolutely not. Those versions

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hi Kenzon.No it is impossible to use those voices on windows 7 since sapi5 only uses microsoft anna or espeak.And it's no loss you can't use sam lol. He sounds like an old man at the bottom of a garbage can. He can hardly say simple words pro

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Ah, that explains quite a lot. It's a shame though that Microsoft Sam, Marry and Mike didn't work on windows7. I really like there voices while playing games and stuff. Thanks. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=1872

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions 1. I don't think so, those voices use a different version of sapi so won't work on windows 75. I don't think so, or at least I didn't find any and I searched quite a lot7. Dectalk sapi 5 is based on dectalk version 4.6.1 I beleiv

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hello,What about the XP version of Microsoft Sam, Marry and Mike? Can we use those on windows7? Also can someone answer my other questions in post 1? Thank you!EDIT: OK, now I have another question: can we use real speak solo voices on SAPI5 for

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hello,What about the XP version of Microsoft Sam, Marry and Mike? Can we use those on windows7? Also can someone answer my other questions in post 1? Thank you! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187211#p187211

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Re: Some speech synthesizer questions Hello Kenzon.Well I don't think you can use sapi 4 voices on windows 7 since I never got it to work. But you can download the sapi4 engine for nvda and use the voices like that. I've never tried using synthesizer voices with jaws but I woul

Some speech synthesizer questions

Some speech synthesizer questions Hello there everyone,I have a few questions on speech synthesizers, text to speech and SAPI:1. Can we use the SAPI5 version of Microsoft Sam, Mike and Marry on windows7 instead of the SAPI4 ones?2. Is there other speech synthesizers that can sing other