Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

2005-09-18 Thread Dom
Marielle Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html > > Multilingual and free, produced by an academic team. But I don't know > of its quality. Hi Marielle! I tried this one [on a Mac, it is a cross-platform technology] , and it sounds very good. The english

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

2005-09-18 Thread Marielle Lange
What's the best English text to speech engine for Windows? I see there are ones from Microsoft, WinSpeech, Lernout & Hauspie, AT&T, and maybe others. I know of this one: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html Multilingual and free, produced by an academic team. But I don't know of i

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

2005-09-17 Thread Bob Earp
Thanks Phil for an excellent resonse, I'll do some digging around and see what solution suits me best. Bob... _ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft® SmartScreen Technology. http://join.msn.c

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

2005-09-16 Thread Mark Swindell
When I was investigating this a couple of months ago I felt that ATT had the most natural speech. But the cost was prohibitive for what I was doing. Mark On Sep 15, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Bob Earp wrote: What's the best English text to speech engine for Windows? I see there are ones from Mic

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

2005-09-15 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Bob - I've used SAPI 4 & 5 to enable Rev speech synthesis on Windows, and haven't found any problems on the surface. I'm not doing anything too fancy with speech, just speaking unmodified English text so far. As you may have already discovered, there are third-party voices available whose

Text to speech engines for Windows

2005-09-15 Thread Bob Earp
What's the best English text to speech engine for Windows? I see there are ones from Microsoft, WinSpeech, Lernout & Hauspie, AT&T, and maybe others. Are there others for Spanish, Portuguese and French ? Also, through searching I see references to SAPI 4.0, SAPI 5.0 and SAPI 5.1 (I assume) st