On Friday 13 August 2004 08:24, Magnus Manske wrote:
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.
The reason why it's so good, is that they don't generate the speech from scratch but instead concatenate recorded speech pieces. This also means that the program is rather huge, and that listening to text at a speed different from recording will not sound very good. See "Concatenative synthesis" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis for more details.
Peter Shaw