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patrickl:
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on July 19, 2010, 10:30:26 am ---true true, my old mac performa (ha ha hah) had this. It's a shame that new pcs don't have this feature built in.
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I'm pretty sure every Windows PC since Windows 95 came standard with text to speech. Go to settings and then Speech (or something similar). You can pick the default voice.
It usually comes with standard crappy voices (and a poor engine) though. That Sam voice is appalling (Stephen Hawking bad). You can buy and install much better voices. Like the ones from AT&T, but also many others. I like the RealSpeak ones, but mostly because they supply Dutch voices too :P
NextUp has a website with lots of them
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I've always found the Vocaloid system by Yamaha rather intriguing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid
patrickl:
Indeed Dr Sbaitso! Compared to the current engines that sounds pretty bad though. Much like the standard SAM voice.
That Vocaloid singing voice, yeah that's pretty imprsesive.
I just remembered Loquendo also had a an emotional TTS engine. You can find some demos on their website. never quite figured out where to buy their software or voices though. They seem to work with big corporations only or something. I think their voices cost hundreds of euro's.
RayB:
I first used that AT&T one back in the late 90's. I was impressed with it then. I wonder why 13 years later it has not improved.
ChadTower:
I learned to code on a Ti99 in the third grade basically so I could use the speech synthesizer and tell my friends to do obscene things in that voice. It was really impressive back in the day to be able to tell someone "Michael Jackson called - he wants his jacket back".
Hey, it was third grade. ;D
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