Hi Shaun,
Yes, it is. Just about any fairly up to date text to speech
application like TextAloud or Swift Talker will allow you to open and
read a text document which has been tagged using xml or ssml speech
tags and give you real time changes in speech as it reads. Its more
natural that way. I've
wow interactive books and other things.
really rocks that.
At 07:27 p.m. 14/11/2011 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
Yeah. Well, like I said, I think the ssml and xml tagging to force
SAPI 5.4 compatible voices to make proper real time changes on the fly
in documents very cool. You can even have it switch
Hi Bryan,
Yes, agreed. Swift Talker does a better job with the Cepstral voices
than TextAloud. Of course, its their product so it should work better.
:D
Cheers!
On 11/14/11, Bryan Peterson wrote:
> You can add the effects with the Cepstral Tools program you get anytime you
> install aCepstral
more sluggish
than it does with the Cepstral specific app.
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
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From: "Thomas Ward"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] legalized speech - Re: Possib
Hi,
Yeah. Well, like I said, I think the ssml and xml tagging to force
SAPI 5.4 compatible voices to make proper real time changes on the fly
in documents very cool. You can even have it switch voices on the fly
while reading a document too. The only problem is, of course, not
every application ha
Hi,
Oh, I wouldn't say that. There are decent SAPI 5 voices as well. They
just don't come with Windows like the SAPI 4 voices did. The Cepstral
voices, for example, have similar effects to make the voices sound
robotic, add echo, etc so that feature is still available in SAPI 5.
As I recall an app
Hi Michael,
As I said I told you what I know. If what you say is true I haven't
heard about it. Last I knew Eloquence was owned by Speech Works. If
they are out of business etc that's news to me. I haven't seen a SAPI
5 compatible version of Eloquence, but that doesn't mean such a thing
does not e
what supprises me is that there are more voices for sapi4 which sound
quite good, some with effects.
the ms sapi4 engines for example sound better than the sapi5 ones.
And the ms ones have effects like hall, space, etc.
There are also robot voices which sound rather cool.
THere is good quality lh
that is the reason I started with dolphin products.
They don't push you to upgrade unless you need it.
Upgrades have cost a lot but you get what you pay for.
I got 2.0 first
then 4.5 because of the new voice synth
then 5.0 because of windows support.
then 5.2 because of dcm.
I stayed there for lik
Actually tom, some of those sapi 5.4 things sound really quite nice,
possibly the first positive change I've heard with windows 7 yet :D.
Actually a friend of mine who had a degree in computer science was
speculating about such tags back in 2003, and now of course ms have proved
her righ
Hi Thomas,
I thought Speech Works did no longer exist, meaning that Eloquence was no
part of Nuance or Scansoft.
Furthermore I also thought at least the IBM versions of the voices were now
also available as SAPI 5.1 versions at least, thus I thought the "original"
Eloquence would also be availa
Hi,
I'm honestly not surprised. Remember SAPI 4 was originally written for
Windows 98 era operating systems and software. That's like 13 years
ago. In terms of computer software its ancient.
Microsoft's SAPI 5 API was a complete rewrite for Windows XP, and has
been steadily upgraded along with th
Hi Charles,
Perhaps, but its just another way to attempt to get the customer to
pay for the same product over and over again. You buy Jaws the price
of Eloquence is included in the sale. If you buy Openbook that too has
another license for Eloquence meaning you just purchased the same
sinth twice.
s not work on windows seven.
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From: Thomas Ward Subject: Re: [Audyssey] legalized speech - Re: Possible MOTA
Features
Hi,
Unfortunately, I don't know any more than I've already said. Yes,
there was a SAPI 4 compatible version of Eloquence available, but
I&#
Hi,
Unfortunately, I don't know any more than I've already said. Yes,
there was a SAPI 4 compatible version of Eloquence available, but I'm
not sure if it is still being sold/licensed. Last I heard Kurzweil
3000 still ships withe the generic SAPI 4 version of Eloquence, but it
has been sometime si
Hi Thomas,
I have a question about this.
I thought it was legally possible to buy a SAPI 5 version of Eloquence
instead of only having boundled versions like JAWS or other programs?
And what about ViaVoice TTS from IBM, which is essentially the same than
Eloquence, at least concerning the voices
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] legalized speech - Re: Possible MOTA Features
Hi Charles,
Yes, of course. Its perfectly legal to use Eloquence if it came a part
of Jaws, Window-Eyes, etc through the screen reader
Hi Charles,
Yes, of course. Its perfectly legal to use Eloquence if it came a part
of Jaws, Window-Eyes, etc through the screen reader's API because you
are still using the product the TTS engine was licensed for.
The problem with RealSpeak, Vocalizer, and Eloquence is they have
exclusive license
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