<div>i'm very interested in how these voices sound to you folks who use tts systems all the time. i thought Eloquence was a formant-based synthesizer like DECtalk, at least it started out that way. the Eloquence system used to be owned by a company called Eloquent, but then it was bought out by, i think, ScanSoft, and then i lost track. i have no idea what is now sold as Eloquence. </div>
<div>i haven't heard much about ViaVoice in a long time.</div>
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<div>thanks to you all for your comments - corine<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Raymond Grote</b> <<a href="mailto:musicalman1@comcast.net">musicalman1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm pretty sure eloquence is protected and only jaws can use it. I suspect it'd only work if you bought the synth directly from its company, but I could be wrong. ViaVoice does sound like Eloquence and I believe that is where Eloquence came from. This is interesting.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Another way my friend told me to record eloquence is to use a free program called d speech. It allows you to convert text to audio using any SAPI 4 or SAPI 5 voices you have. If you have jaws or window eyes, eloquence is a SAPI 4 voice. Also, there's another alternative. If you have this scanning software called open book, you can use it's save to audio feature to convert any typed text to audio. Open book comes with IBM viavoice, witch sounds much like eloquence. If you do not have open book, I recommend d speech. I don't remember the site, but if you Google search d speech, you should find the site. If what I said doesn't help, you can also do what Blake said and record from the sound card. It may require editing because you may not want everything eloquence says to be included in your file.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">If you need further help, you can contact me privately anytime by email at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:katiewht@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">katiewht@sbcglobal.net</a>, or add dectalkgirl1987 to your skype contacts.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">hey guys, is there a way to record eloquence directly from the synthesiser, like people have done in the DECtalk archive.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">thanks in advance,</font></div>
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