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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I guess in that case you could use Festival to make a voice, or modelTalker, or Acapela’s voice creation tool. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:Text_to_Speech@GMX.com">Don</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, June 16, 2021 15:22<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] question about Kurzweil 1000 voices</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 6/16/2021 10:53 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Espeak runs not only on windows, but mac, Linux and android as well. By</p><p class=MsoNormal>> modifying its ontonation files and the formants of its klatt voices you could</p><p class=MsoNormal>> make it emulate the speaking style of any tts you wanted.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No. All you can do with that is change the "sound" of the voice(s).</p><p class=MsoNormal>It's speaking style has more to do with how it parses the text that it</p><p class=MsoNormal>is given.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For example, I can use the same phoneme parameters from DECTalk</p><p class=MsoNormal>and drive them with the letter-to-sound rules from the NRL and</p><p class=MsoNormal>you would *GAG* on the resulting "speaking style".</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Put a period after each word in a sentence and pass that to</p><p class=MsoNormal>DECtalk. You've now changed its "speaking style". How has</p><p class=MsoNormal>its listenability changed?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> A-while back someone</p><p class=MsoNormal>> sent me an intonations file and variant file and when I applied it, eSpeak</p><p class=MsoNormal>> sounded almost exactly like the keynote gold tts from the early 1990s.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The goal is for more natural speech. The fact that you can make something</p><p class=MsoNormal>sound ancient isn't an asset!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My first experience with speech synthesis was a Votrax in the 70's. I surely</p><p class=MsoNormal>don't want something that sounds like that in the 2020's! I want something</p><p class=MsoNormal>that sees when I type "teh" instead of "the" and says what I *meant* to say.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Even if you are dealing with text generated "professionally" (like reading</p><p class=MsoNormal>a newspaper), there are still typos. Every time you (the reader) have to</p><p class=MsoNormal>stop and ask for something to be spelled is a distraction in your consumption</p><p class=MsoNormal>of that material.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Imagine you have ALS. You WILL be losing the ability to speak.</p><p class=MsoNormal>You WILL need a communication aid if you want to continue</p><p class=MsoNormal>interacting with those around you. Something that will SPEAK ON</p><p class=MsoNormal>YOUR BEHALF.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Which DECtalk voice would you like to be REMEMBERED AS? Given the</p><p class=MsoNormal>hurdles you are already facing, wouldn't you, instead, want to</p><p class=MsoNormal>sound like YOU?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>