Re: who is your favorite tex to speech voice?
I have quite a few favorites. For me, eloquence is my default synth when using my laptop. I don't know why, but it doesn't seem natural to have an actual human sounding voice reading me computer screen output. Eloquence is nice and simple, and does the job well. Now, if we are talking natural human voices, I gotta say, Saul from acapela takes the cake. Mica is another personal favorite, only because it's dialect and pronunciation are not too terribly dissimilar to the way the people I grew up around talk. Personally, I think there needs to be more accented voices. For instance, I think it would be particularly amusing if someone were to create a voice with the speech patterns of someone from Boston. Heck, it would be even more funny if someone would make a more African American synth than Saul. And at some point, someone should come up with a canadian english voice. All great ideas, but something I would use for reading certain stories that have certain themes which could be enhanced by accented synthesisers.
If we travel back a few years though, my favorite voices were the old keynote gold speech, which ran on all the humanware products up until they discontinued the apex. I also enjoyed DoubleTalk, I think it was called, which was the default for a few embossers we used to use.
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