Re: IPA Text-to-Speech

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:37:45 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

> Outo Otus wrote:
>
>> For example, if you wanted you to know you were pronouncing a
>> word correctly in another language, then you would be able to check if
>> you
>> said it correctly, because you could see exactly what you said and where
>> you went wrong, and it would work for every language.
>
> For that you might want a sound-spectrograph program (I believe one
> exists--
> again, probably $$$$$).  That would show that you were producing things
> the
> right way (correct formants etc.), rather than sounding "close enough"
> but
> for the wrong reasons.
For Windows, there's a program called Cool Edit, which includes among its
many features, a spectrograph view. IMO it's the Photoshop of sound, a
point perhaps proven by the fact that it has been purchased by Adobe, and
is now called Adobe Audition. It can now be found at
http://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium.html

It seems we've lost the ability to download a free trial version, however,
which is IMO of the bad.




Paul