Speech Synthesis
Posted February 25th, 2003 @ 10:58am by Erik J. Barzeski
Don't expect quality this good on your home computer anytime soon: Natural Voices @ AT&T.
The text I chose to have it speak first was:
This is a test. I am going to type some text and you, the computer, will read it back to me.
Have a go at it. Amaze your friends and coworkers. Save any funny clips and feel free to email them to me (don't post links in the comments - audio clips on the server are not saved).
(Update: I've added a Sound Set to Sound Set Central called "British Synthesis" that's based on these voices. It's fairly amusing.)
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Posted 25 Feb 2003 at 11:19am #
back when i ran a little online radio station, I had the old Lucent version of this, calling out my Call letters and station ID. It was pretty cool. The new version is a lot cleaner than the older one. . Great stuff.
Posted 25 Feb 2003 at 12:00pm #
Macintalk Pro comes pretty close to that one.