[DECtalk] o/t speech synthesizers

[Raymond Grote]

Yes, I've tried it. It has only one female english voice. It reads sentences 
much more fluently than other synths and sounds a lot like a real human. 
However, to me at least, it sounds like a real bored human with sentences 
that I've tried. They were just sentences that popped randomly into my head 
and didn't seem to be particularly difficult to synthesize. I'd take Real 
Speak over it.
My favorite Real Speak voices are Tom, Daniel and sometimes Lee for male, 
Samantha for female. Jill comes close but I think it's an older voice and it 
just doesn't sound right to me.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "piotr machacz" <pitermach at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:31 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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