Re: Q?: Text To Speech

>Any body knows about a Text to Speech program, preferible freeware or free
>software but shareware and comware too, you can feed with SAMPA, define
>orthography to phonetic patterns, and some other features.
The macintosh TTF software developers kit includes a mexican spaniswh
module, but switching speech synthesizers mid-word is almost certainly not
feasible.

On the other hand you can use teachtext (notepad equivalent) with the
speech software to type in phonemes and hear the pronunciation. You might
be able to do _some_ interesting things by playing with the pitch/emphasis
controls.

I have no idea about TTS on Unix or evil empire machines.

I would like a decent concatenative synthesis engine that ran
cross-platform so I could add my own phonemes and stuff... There are a lot
of papers on this stuff, but I'm not really good at number-crunching. If
anyone finds a good tool like this, they should post a note here, though.

   -- David

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