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Best Text-to-Speech yet: IVOSeptember 25, 2008
Have a listen to "What is the weather forecast for tomorrow"? Very impressive.
I've tried some other phrases and the results haven't been as impressive as this one example, but overall I like what I hear.
Quality of Microsoft TTS 5.1September 25, 2008
I'm currently downloading Microsoft's TTS (Text To Speech) API version 5.3, which was release within the last year.
I sure hope the quality of the new engine is better than the one in version 5.1
Have a listen to the synthesis of "What is tomorrow's weather forcast"? Yuck! Granted, this is using 2001 technology.
Exercise 19September 25, 2008
SummaryCreate an application which can, upon hearing a specific voice command, reply by speaking a specific phrase.
SolutionMicrosoft's Speech API makes it surprisingly easy to add both voice recognition and text to speech to an application. I was hoping to use version 5.3 of the API, but after downloading and install Windows SDK 6.1, which includes Speech API 5.3, it wasn't listed in Visual Studio 2002 in the "Add References" dialog.
I ended up using version 5 of the API, which is all the way back from 2001. The text-to-speech quality is brutal, but the programming steps would be about the same regardless of which API you use.
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