egaeus opened this issue on Jan 04, 2005 ยท 9 posts
egaeus posted Tue, 04 January 2005 at 4:26 PM
Attached Link: http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
If you're looking for ways to create sound/dialogue for amateur Poser animations, take a look at the link. It's a text-to-speech demo you can use online -- loads of fun to play with. Just type in anything, and it will say it. You also get a choice of voices, even some for other languages -- German, French and Spanish. The demo lets you save the sound file that's created. It doesn't always work well, but many of the files can be used for computerized voices. And when it does work, the speech sounds more or less natural. It doesn't handle contractions well, so you'll have to leave off the apostrophes. It's useable for amateur projects, of which there are many on these boards, so I thought I'd tell people.Message edited on: 01/04/2005 16:30
Smoovie posted Tue, 04 January 2005 at 5:11 PM
Pretty cool..Where's the child voices
Angelouscuitry posted Tue, 04 January 2005 at 7:03 PM
The Text Aloud MP3 application has the coolest Robogirl voice I've heard yet, demo is good for a month. = )
Little_Dragon posted Tue, 04 January 2005 at 9:39 PM
The voice technologies by Rhetorical and Nuance are pretty good, also.
Estruch posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 7:37 AM
Attached Link: http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
This site is good.
Estruch posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 7:37 AM
Attached Link: http://www.scansoft.com/realspeak/demo/
Another good site
Estruch posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 7:38 AM
Attached Link: http://www.eurocosm.com/Eurocosm/AppEC/Pdcd/Quicktools/QuicktoolsGB.asp
Another good site
egaeus posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 11:13 AM
It appears that a couple of these places use the same voices from the site I mentioned initially i.e., the Charles and Audrey UK voices. Mike
Little_Dragon posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 3:41 PM
Yes. AT&T has been licensing its NaturalVoices tech for some time now.