Comments on: What did you say?

By: ken white

ken white — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:56:07 +0000

Don’t’ forget all the voices available for TextAloud at
http://nextup.com/TextAloud/SpeechEngine/voices.html

By: Elhardt

Elhardt — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:19:15 +0000

Just a few days ago I decided to buy a voice synth text to speech app. My main goal was to get something that sounded the most real and had the fewest little synthetic artifacts that would clue listeners into figuring out they were listening to a computer voice. I found a company called Ivona and their TTS app called Expressivo that included “Jennifer” their currently only English voice, currently $29 total. It is a step above the rest in realism and made the fewest pronunciation errors.

AT&T is mentioned above, and while I like some of their voices, there are times they give an odd echo type sound and a slight synthetic gurgle now and then and a few weird pronunciation errors.

You can give Expressivo a try below and type in your own text and listen to it in their interactive online demo.

http://say.expressivo.com/

By: walter manley

walter manley — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:20:45 +0000

Are you not actually leaving out mention of the Leaders of Speach Synthsis, AT&T ? They have been and are presently years ahead of MS, Apple or any that you have mentioned. I have been using their Natural Voices Audrey for years. Ant it is easily Far ahead of those mentioned above. NAY! They are the founders of the technology. Let us not forget the Bell Labs.

By: Manta

Manta — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:51:42 +0000

Anna is the only new voice that I saw.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:09:00 +0000

Windows Vista is a beta too. But yes, the “Lee” voice is current technology.

By: Shoshan

Shoshan — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:46:37 +0000

I don’t agree with comparing apple’s beta to Microsoft’s excisting technology.

speech was improved very much in Windows Vista and there are some amazing new voices.