[Bug 197640] Re: Speech synthesis

2010-07-11 Thread Philip Muškovac
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[Bug 197640] Re: Speech synthesis

2008-03-03 Thread TerryG
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

[Bug 197640] Re: Speech synthesis

2008-03-03 Thread Fred
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

[Bug 197640] Re: Speech synthesis

2008-03-02 Thread TerryG
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