Re: Text-to-speech API with Australian accent? (Neil Waterman )


Subject: Re: Text-to-speech API with Australian accent?
From:    Neil Waterman  <neil.waterman@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:13:21 -0400
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Daniel,<br> <br> You might try Nuance Realspeak.<br> <br> They have both an Australian accented male and female.<br> <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/solo/">http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/solo/</a><br> <br> Unfortunately this is not free...<br> <br> Regards, Neil<br> <br> Daniel TAFT wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20100721232750.F25BA8FDF@xxxxxxxx" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;} @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;} @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} @xxxxxxxx WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal">Hi list,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know of a text-to-speech synthesis tool that for the .NET framework (i.e. visual studio)that offers an Australian voice?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I&#8217;m currently using the Microsoft Speech API. It sounds good, but there is only one voice: Microsoft Anna. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I&#8217;m sure Anna is a lovely person, her accent doesn&#8217;t suit our target audience. We need longer vowels and fewer /r/&#8217;s. <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks all,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Daniel Taft.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>


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