zsmith3rd(at)earthlink.ne
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 Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:43 am Post subject: Habla text,anyone? |
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List,
A non-aviation-related post. Delete before reading.
AT&T Labs has a demo site where you can type in text, choose a "voice" for readback, and hear the result of your efforts.
Called "text-to-speech" in some circles, this is the process used by the U.S. National Weather Service for automated weather on their NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts.
One of their transmitter techs told me they refer to the "voice" as "Igor".....he has some difficulty with proper pronounciation of various placenames (cities, towns, etc). Therefore they trick the conversion process by typing the text version "phoenetically" for the benefit of Igor.
http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
You can also download/save the voice file, rename it, etc, put it on your cellphone ringer.
Has other languages, but don't know if it will read English and then speak French, etc.
Fun to send gag greetings to your email friends.
You have to "experiment" with numerals....it will pronounce the telephone number 555-1212 as "five hundred fifty-five hyphen one-thousand two-hundred twelve"......definitely NOT what you may have intended. Works better with spaces between numerals, in this case.
An example of bad reading by Igor is the placename of Mexia, Texas. Igor says "MEX-e-ah".....the correct useage is "Maa-hay-ah".....phonics.
Not sure if you can sent the voice-file as an attachment to this List.
Wonder if Igor can say "Green ScotchBrite Pads"???
Regards,
Zed
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