[DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers

Johnny Lam johnnybrl at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 13:07:42 EDT 2008


hi, I do use t6he neospeech Paul and Kate. it sounds pretty good, but in my 
oppinion, the kate voice has a little more inflection than Paul does.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "piotr machacz" <pitermach at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 4:31 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers


> people, I really like loquendo especially simon. I really like
> realspeak, 3 of my favorite voices are daniel (good for jim's base
> ball), lee, and jill. the polish realspeak agata doesn't sound so cool
> in my opinion, but it has a nice dictionary, it will nicely handle
> words in english like way, search, flash, splash etc with out adding
> any of those words to the screen readers dictionarry. it however,
> likes to spell stuff if there's a number after a word with out spaces,
> like, document1. it will say, d, o, c, u, m, e, n, t, 1. this drives
> me insane, especially with longer words. and has anyone tried ivona
> tts? it's a polish synth, but it's capable of speaking english. you
> can download a demo, but it will play music and say this is a demo
> after few sentences, or try the online demo which doesn't have that.
> either google or go to www.ivo.pl
> if it displays the page in polish there's a link that says english
> version oor something similar.
> also has anyone used neospeech? they have good voices too. I heard
> they are expensive but you can get them on nextup. I don't know the
> actual price.
>
> On 8/10/08, talksina <talksina at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes,
>> I had RealSpeak too. Silvia. It's sort of fun, as with that synth I
>> managed to imitate my mother, the voice is quite similar to her!
>> I use Loquendo into my mobile device, the HTC TyTN PDA
>>  while Eloquence with the symbian cellular phone.
>> Those heavy voices such as Loquendo and RealSpeak could be nice to read
>> books, but not for normal screen reader use at all!
>>
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