Chucks say stuff

Ruffy · 01-15-2007, 07:47 AM

interesting, but i got annoyed by voice being on.

Nice to have finite control over it though

swift_gti · 01-15-2007, 01:44 PM

I made this little app the other day, it uses SAPI 5.1 (i recommend the Nextup.com Kate Voice)
Simply launch the app followed by what you want it to say (encased in quotes)

Hope its of use, as I know a few people were looking for tts stuff..

teaser · 01-15-2007, 02:39 PM

Nextup.com voice available free ?
Anyone can suggest a free source for SAPI new voices?

Ruffy · 01-15-2007, 02:59 PM

I use Acapella Telecom's Lucy that I... aquired

Lovely english voice.

Ruffy · 01-15-2007, 03:01 PM

wow, the acapela stuff sounds better than any of the voices at nextup

swift_gti · 01-15-2007, 03:07 PM

http://www.adondo.net/try-pal-with-neospeech-kate.aspx#

^thats the one I use

Ruffy, I just tried the sample of the Lucy voice and she sounded drunk..

maybe its just the demo

JohnWPB · 01-15-2007, 03:35 PM

Acapela's Heather is the BEST TTS voice I have heard to date. I have tried the Neo SPeech & AT&T voices as well. The only problem, is the company has been sitting on that voice for 3 years, and I see no time soon that they are going to offer it for sale. You can download a 30 time limited demo at THIS LINK

My home automation uses a lot of Text to speech stuff to read announcements, email, security status, weather Announce incoming phone calls ect ect.

I just wish I could get my hands on the Heather voice permanently

Blue ZX3 · 01-15-2007, 05:19 PM

So what your saying is that you just keep reloading the poor woman...LOL

Ruffy · 01-15-2007, 06:25 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by swift_gti

http://www.adondo.net/try-pal-with-neospeech-kate.aspx#

^thats the one I use

Ruffy, I just tried the sample of the Lucy voice and she sounded drunk..

maybe its just the demo

she speaks alittle slow on default settings

I just bump up speed 1x

but so far ive tried celestra? Acapela, Loquendo, ATT, and a bunch of others I cant remember, Theres one by a company called LH, dont know what it stands for since it sounds so robotic i cant tell what its saying when it says it's own company name. Worse than MS anna

In any case Acapela has the best SAPI voices period
I have heather as well

Ruffy · 01-15-2007, 06:27 PM

ygpm john

JohnWPB · 01-15-2007, 08:59 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruffy

Theres one by a company called LH, dont know what it stands for since it sounds so robotic i cant tell what its saying when it says it's own company name.l

LH is Lernout & Hauspie. They do good voice recognition software, but the ir text to speech sux

Yea, The Acapela voices are amazing.... Right behind that is NeoSpeech.

JohnWPB · 01-15-2007, 11:57 PM

Woah, I have heard some good voices before but this one blew me over!

The name of the Voice is "Lee" from RealSpeak. This is the page with their other sample voices.

pRoFiT · 01-16-2007, 12:56 AM

I have crystal and mike from microsoft natural speek. They both sound pretty good. My friend bought them for some R&D stuff. Then i loaded them on my work pc to play with. I wrote a quick prank caller program with it. That way when im bored at work i can call other departments and mess with them.