Subject: Re: Speech rate modeling in synthetic speech From: Thomas G Brennan <g_brennantg(at)TITAN.SFASU.EDU> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:56:27 -0500Any synthesizer which allows you access to its phoneme generation system can be programmed to give pretty normal rate to speech but this means you have to program every word and sound. Text recognition, lpc, and similar schemes either stretch the lengths of vowels for slower speech or chop sounds (interrupt) to create faster speech. If interruptability is turned off on the synth unless you individually program sounds you will be limited by the speed of the system's internal rules and dictionaries. Even if you program for the synthesizer this will be problematic but can be overcome to a large extent. You will almost find programmer's toolkits a must for programming as specific as you want. I have designed and written programs for a few sunthesizers that help shortcut that process but programming everything from scratch is very time consuming and takes a good deal of work. Depending upon the internal dictionary bein used by the synth or dictionaries being added at program load-up you may or may not want to disable the on board system rules. Tom Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html