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| Thread ID: 117105 | 2011-04-02 10:47:00 | Text to Speech software - recommendations appreciated | braindead (1685) | Press F1 |
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| 1191495 | 2011-04-02 10:47:00 | I need to find something with reasonably good-sounding natural male and female voices for a handicapped person. Any suggestions most welcome. A lot of the robotic voices just don't sound easy on the ear. Many thanks! |
braindead (1685) | ||
| 1191496 | 2011-04-02 10:50:00 | What about this? (www.cross-plus-a.com). Its free. I've never used it tho | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1191497 | 2011-04-02 12:38:00 | www.oddcast.com i find the animation a bit creepy |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1191498 | 2011-04-03 22:59:00 | Although I tend to be a freeware person I bought Ivona text-to-speech about a year ago because the freeware offerings weren't very good. (Haven't tried Balabolka mentioned by Speedy though) I bought Brian, a British male voice, but you can have female or other nationalities. Here's Eric, a US male: www.youtube.com |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1191499 | 2011-04-03 23:49:00 | The IBM stuff probably is the most realistic I know of, but I don't know of any applications that use it. I found it a while back when I was doing some investigating: www.research.ibm.com AT&T Labs have a few good ones that aren't too bad: www2.research.att.com But to be honest I ended up going for the ones from Cepstral back in the day: www.cepstral.com At only USD$30, what have you got to loose? :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1191500 | 2011-04-05 18:15:00 | I need to find something with reasonably good-sounding natural male and female voices for a handicapped person. Any suggestions most welcome. A lot of the robotic voices just don't sound easy on the ear. Many thanks! Have you contacted the NZ Blind Foundation? I am sure their members would be at the cutting edge of this sort of technology. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 1191501 | 2011-04-05 22:22:00 | There are some voices which install and work with the inbuilt Windows TTS too.. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1191502 | 2011-04-05 22:27:00 | If the person is blind, you could get a program called Jaws. Its not free tho. A probation officer I know uses it. It will also speak / or say the words (within windows, or if / when you scan text) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1191503 | 2011-04-06 00:12:00 | Wow! Thanks so much for your responses and suggestions. I'll check them out. Jaws sounds intriguing but it's $US900 a pop - yikes... Best to you all |
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