you can hit a button to have "This is a wiki test" read to you as a WAV.
It is using the service at
based on the open source Festival speech generation engine.
The HTML is dead simple. The text of a wikipedia page could be generated
on-the-fly within the parser, or from the <body> part of the output.
Or we could have a <speech>special extension</speech> for important
parts. Then again, probably not.
We should, however, ask the people from CMU first before we
wikipedia-flood their demo system :-)
Magnus
Andy Rabagliati schrieb:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Timwi wrote:
I guess I shouldn't have said this, because
now everyone thinks that
arguing that accents can be mutually unintelligible, is an argument
against natural recordings and for text-to-speech synthesis.
I am glad you brought it up, as I believe it needs to be addressed.
When Atlanta Airport (Georgia) opened, with automated trains taking you
out to the terminals, there was a requirement for public announcements
telling you which terminal, stand clear, departing now, etc.
They started out with a pleasant local (Georgian) accent.
Complaints - sounded too provincial, International passengers, etc.
They changed it to a female announcer.
Complaints - people didn't pay enough attention, what was wrong with the
previous one, etc.
They have ended up with an assertive, metallic, computer voice.
No complaints.
Things pro text to speech :-
* Immediately works with all Wikipedia content.
* No problems with editing.
* Uniformity, even if it is uniformly poor ..
I will leave the pro natural speech argument to others - after preparing
my flame-proof underwear :-) I would also welcome input from people for
whom English is not a first language.
Cheers, Andy!
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