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From: Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt <hhs@cbs.dtu.dk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:07:27 +0100
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 02:53, Amanda Walker wrote:
> On 11/25/02 5:11 AM, Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
> <Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com> wrote:
>> I've yet to hear any text to speech that wasn't immediately
>> recognisable as such, and certain to get grating after only a few
>> seconds having to listen to it.
> http://www.cepstral.com/ (disclaimer: the CEO is an old classmate
> of mine) Or check out some of the examples for the "Festival"
> voice synthesis package. If you can track the pitch and prosody
> of a real human speaking the text, you can get *much* more natural
> than having to simulate it from a text-to-speech model.
> People teach themselves to read Elvish and Klingon, so why not? :-)
This is the best speech synthesis i have found yet (with respect to
quality, not diversity) is;
http://www.naturalvoices.com/
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