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05-17-2004, 03:52 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Charlotte, NC
Vehicle: 02 Subaru Impreza
Posts: 520
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Text-to-speech suggestions
Does anyone have any Software Recommendations for text to speech on a carputer. Obviously some sort of software that can work easily on a touchscreen without taking too many recources. Has anyone used any software for this, comments? reviews?
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mobo $130 ; 150wOpus-$200 ; 256mb pc2700 -$10 ; 120gb HDD 7200-$70 ; Lilliput TS 7"-$265 ; USB LAN-Free AR ; Rikaline 6010 GPS-$34 ; ShuttleXpress-$37
Total = $746....Carputer = Priceless
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05-17-2004, 03:53 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Kent, UK
Vehicle: 2003 MG ZR
Posts: 137
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scansoft's TTS is probably the best one in the world!!!!
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05-17-2004, 04:07 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Kent, UK
Vehicle: 2003 MG ZR
Posts: 137
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05-18-2004, 12:41 PM
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Jesus Freak
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: California
Vehicle: 2006 Mazda Mazdaspeed 6 GT
Posts: 4,277
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Yea but will it work with the Front Ends that we currently have like froddoplayer, MediaCar and MediaEngine have support for this?
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05-18-2004, 01:32 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Colorado
Vehicle: 2003 Chevy Avalanche
Posts: 85
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Did I see those prices right? $3,000.00+ Anyone have a REAL solution? I used to have a shareware text to MP3 program. I would convert news websites and dump into my MP3 walkman thing in the mornings to listen to on the bike or whatever.
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05-18-2004, 07:37 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Scotland
Vehicle: 1995 Volvo 850GLT 2.5
Posts: 153
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I had tried the demo sounds good, but I would have expected more for the price.
Was there not a text to speech, program that came with the early
Soundblaster sound cards.
It's been a long time, but I remember thinking not bad for the time and cost.
I did expect the demo to sound much better.
Must have a look for the old text to speech program.
Was it not called "Parrot" or something???
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05-18-2004, 07:50 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: San Francisco
Vehicle: Hummer H1
Posts: 454
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MSFT have a free Text to Speech engine, you can get it from their downloads folder, or if you cannot find it let me know and I'll hunt it down.
If you get MSDN, its on their DVD's too.
The interface is really simple to integrate into other apps.
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05-18-2004, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Ruston, LA
Vehicle: 1998 Ranger/1991 Sunbird
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Quote: Originally Posted by mobileh1
MSFT have a free Text to Speech engine, you can get it from their downloads folder, or if you cannot find it let me know and I'll hunt it down.
If you get MSDN, its on their DVD's too.
The interface is really simple to integrate into other apps.
It's integrated into mine, it's extremely simple.
Frodo
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05-19-2004, 08:33 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2004
Vehicle: 2003 Pointac Sunfire
Posts: 318
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Check these guys out: https://www.cepstral.com/cgi-bin/dow...store/home.cgi
Amazing and for great prices 
We were able to obtain an SDK from Cepstral's development team and may be able to implement it into VOICES. It is not a free solution obviously, but its one of the best i have seen. We'll see how development comes along.
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05-19-2004, 08:34 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2004
Vehicle: 2003 Pointac Sunfire
Posts: 318
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Also you may want to check their demo page out:
http://www.cepstral.com/cgi-bin/demos/general
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Asus Pundit Barebones PC
7" Lilliput LCD
P4 2.8ghz 512mb 120gb
Windows XP Pro, VOICES
Sony Xplode 10in Sub, Rockford 600w amp
Pioneer 6x9's and 4x6's, Kenwood 4ch amp
Black Widow Alarm with Pager
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