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I've used Dragon Naturally Speaking and IBM's Via Voice. Both are
closed source, but would make great open source projects if they are
ever opened up. IBM uses Via Voice in many automated telephone
answering systems, so I doubt that would be opened anytime soon.
This seems like a good Google sum
Well, we should be able to get a good voice, even if many voices are
closed source.
There are 6 billion people on this planet who have a voice.
It would be awesome to get the voice of Tobin Bell, the guy who plays
John Kramer (The Jigsaw killer) in Saw. :D
We need IBM, Sun or Google to get us a
Thanks for your suggestion. I agree, Festival is only slightly better
than Amiga's speech engine. Unfortunately the good voices out there are
closed source. Voice recognition is in a similar sad state. There is
some work going on at Cornel using more advanced sound sampling
techniques and bette