I was using the festival engine, but the voices were getting on my nerves :( If you're interested in speech then you should have a look at the CLSU toolkit from Oregon University :
(be warned... the download can take up to an hour... regardless of your bandwidth)
I used it to help me get the visemes for my avatar working correctly - the Disney group of 12 are ok for most words, but they're based on US english pronunciation and don't quite fit UK english.
On 8/10/05, Ted Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Davy,
I use the Festival speech system. One huge advantage is that it's open software, and free.
One thing I've discovered. You listen to these voices long enough, and you grow quite fond of them, like a favorite uncle.
For something completely different, check out the comedy schtick at www.botcast.com.
Ted
On 8/10/05, Davy Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On 8/8/05, Ted Gilchrist < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess this would qualify as an aurally repurposed backstage project:
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/bbcworldRebotcast
Sounds like it uses the Java TTS system. Personally I don't like the
way it sounds :-)
Hate to say it, but the MS speech stuff is pretty good though the
documentation is somewhat difficult to follow.
A good Python wrapper is pyTTS
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr02.shtml
Cheers,
Davy Mitchell
http://www.latedecember.com
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