Hi,
I just found an AT&T demo site for text-to-speech synthesis:
http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
which appears to generate *way* better speech than I got from other
(local installation) demos.
They want to sell it, of course, but I thought we should ask them for a
cooperation. This would be the ultimate demonstration for their software
(better than a million people typing "this is a test"), and it could
enable us to provide access to the "visually impaired" without the need
for a local text-to-speech browser, and with better speech quality. Or
it could be a "convenience link", like "read this article to me, I'm
too
lazy to move my eyes" (or: wikipedia for mp3 players? ;-)
As Wikipedia has a good and innovative image, and since we wouldn't buy
their product anyway, I guess AT&T would be interested in such a thing.
Question is, would we?
Magnus