Hi David, > From: davidsyes/nac > Subject: Re: Voices and victories > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:27:33 -0700 > > Is it possible to "impersonate" the voices? Or, are the voices tied to a SDK? ----------snip Nope, they're tied to a TTS engine, like AT&T's NaturalVoice, which requires licensing to use in distributable projects. ---------- > So, Tuviah may want use own-voices and then charge self for royalties. This > way Tuvia can say, "If my voice is successful, and I want more royalties, I > will sue myself and I will be victorious". ---------- :-) Well, you can synthesize voice-modeling by hyperextensive sampling and digitizing, but you're talking about hundreds (and perhaps 1000's) of man- (or woman-) hours in recording, analyzing, tweaking results, etc. which is why AT&T has to recover those costs and try to make money on it, otherwise it's monetarily a bad deal, and it's probably a safe bet they're not gonna give away the best TTS voices in the world out of the kindness of their hearts.
But maybe Tuviah will ;-) Ken N. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
