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From: R on 14 Apr 2010 04:27 Is there a free speech synthesis engine that is better than VoiceOver's voices? VoiceOver isn't terrible, but the giveaway signs of speech synthesis *are* there. So I wonder what better tools might be available. This looks, or rather sounds, like it might be almost better, albeit producing somewhat stilted speech: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/onlinedemo.html I can't get it to compile under OS X 10.6, unfortunately. Anything else out there? Thanks, R.
From: James Jolley on 14 Apr 2010 09:07 On 2010-04-14 09:27:07 +0100, me32(a)privacy.net (R) said: > Is there a free speech synthesis engine that is better > than VoiceOver's voices? Are you using 10.4 then? If so, I can see why you're asking this. alex under 10.5 and 10.6 is perfectly fine. I use it all of the time. The only other place for decent voices is assistiveware at www.assistiveware.com. I actually have gone off the voices entirely, due to the terrible pronounciation issues. > > VoiceOver isn't terrible, but the giveaway signs of > speech synthesis *are* there. So I wonder what > better tools might be available. Speech is of course subjective, but the main thing is how fast it can react with faster speaking rates. I have VO at 500 plus WPM on headphones and it is still understandable. > > This looks, or rather sounds, like it might be almost > better, albeit producing somewhat stilted speech: > > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/onlinedemo.html I don't really go for that sound myself, it's very broken up. > > I can't get it to compile under OS X 10.6, unfortunately. Even if you manage to, I wonder if you have to do something else to make VO see the voices? I recall that when 10.6 came out, the assistiveware folks had to rewrite there voices to use 64 bit computing. > > Anything else out there?
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