More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak is optimised for low-power devices (great for XOs) and clear (if robotic) speech.

Re: More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Paul Fox
sridhar wrote: I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak is optimised for low-power devices (great for XOs) and

Re: [OLPC-AU] More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.auwrote: I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak