Ah, this all makes sense and thanks for explaining.
Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 11, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
DTBmaker is open source and you could modify it to use say. The reasons I do not and use Cepstral swift are as follows: First Cepstrals voices are far better for the production of books which involve listening to recorded voices for many hours. Second Cepstrals swift TTS program supports using SSML which lets me fine tune the recordings and with multiple voices with in a recording session, pauses and so on as well as the ability to have lexicon files. Third Cepstral provides voices in languages other than english permitting DTBmaker to produce books in German, French, Spanish, Italian and so on. Fourth: Cepstral is cross platform so I don't have to rewrite the whole recording system for Mac, Linux and Windows. But some have modified DTBmaker to use other TTS systems and DTBmaker Online uses the Festival system for its Swedish and Welsh productions. So it is possible. Greg Kearney
