----- Original Message ----- From: "Van Der Walt Riana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "National Accessibility Portal mailing list with topics focusedonaccessibility for users with visual disabilities." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:52 AM Subject: [Blind] create your own natural voices!
NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.doj.gov.za/2004dojsite/ab_web/disclaimer.htm If you are unable to access the Disclaimer, send an email request for the disclaimer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will send you a copy of the Disclaimer. Thought the below might interest some: -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wil James Sent: 16 August 2006 04:28 To: New Products List The following comes from Steve Pattison, which came from the Blindtech list. Hi, I just found a very interesting website and thought I'd pass it on as it can or since it's sapi5, this software, can be used with window-eyes and or jaws. Ok. I'll explain a little first. Suppose you wanted to add your own voice to the library or portfoleo of voices or voice fonts in the ATNT natural voices speech synthesizer. Well you'd have to pay thousands of dollars. But thanks to the website: http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/ModelTalker.html you can now do it, at least temporarily, for free! The speech synthesizer is called model talker. And you can create new voices with it by using your very own voice, a microphone, and your very own computer. There's good documentation with it that explains what to read and how to read it. If you spend the time. You can make a voice that sounds as good or better than the cepstral voices, or, you can create a voice that sounds as bad or a little worse than microsoft text to speech mary mike and sam voices. But with a little effort. Window-eyes and jaws, since this speech is sapi5 compatible. window-eyes and jaws can now talk in your own voice! or whose-ever voice you decide to record and turn into a voice font. Enjoy and have fun creating voices. I myself signed up to their mailing list and to be a beta tester of upcoming versions of the software. _______________________________________________ New-products mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cuttingedgesolutions.biz/mailman/listinfo/new-products_cuttingedg esolutions.biz _______________________________________________ Blind mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.napsa.org.za/mailman/listinfo/blind -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.2/422 - Release Date: 2006/08/17 _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
