xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (06/07/90)
While we're wishing, a good specification of how the system works and how to modify it and tailorable sound source files (to allow one put in phonemes that don't occur in English) would vastly improve the odds of commercial products being developed around the Amiga's speech synthesis system, perhaps opening a whole new market area. Drilling kids learning English as a second language in spoken English would sell to a lot of inner city schools, for example. Anything existing or planned in this direction? Specifically, is there, for example, an IFF chunk for algebraically defined (or however one does this) phonemes? Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
ja26612@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (06/08/90)
There is another speech program out, called smoothtalker, which apparently was ported from another machine. It sounds much better than Amy's stock voice, but still is not completely understandable.
stoller@cbmcel.UUCP (Martin S. Stoller) (06/08/90)
In article <1990Jun7.083800.26414@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >While we're wishing, a good specification of how the system works and >how to modify it and tailorable sound source files (to allow one put >in phonemes that don't occur in English) would vastly improve the odds >of commercial products being developed around the Amiga's speech >Anything existing or planned in this direction? Specifically, is there, >for example, an IFF chunk for algebraically defined (or however one does >this) phonemes? >Kent, the man from xanth. ><xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> I know of several people here in Switzerland who (myself for instance) are playing with the idea of an intelligent LANGUAGE TRANSLATION DEVICE. The name is, I'm afraid, a bit missleading: we're working on a new translator.dev, which should be able to emualte (ei: sound like) a Swiss farmer or Swiss layer, which-ever comes easier. The device could be used for other, simpler languages, like English, Hebrew, and Chinese. Might take a while before it gets to a demo stage, 'cause we are all hard working and have a minimal of spare time >;-> The format may well be IFF, 'cause that's the best |:-$ -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Martin S. Stoller, Technical Support Assistant | | Commodore Electronics Limited (CEL), Switzerland | | 'We maveric maniacal programmers must be marvelous...' | | ...the deamomnd ring... | | See ya... Martin S. Stoller | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
djung@eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au (06/10/90)
Has anyone heard the program called KidTalk? It's a kids program - the idea is that the kids type in stories and the computer reads them. The speech on that program is REAL nice. The best I've ever heard from an Amiga (or any machine for that matter). unfortunately it can only be used from inside the program. (the speech that is). Maybe the folks who made this could produce an Amiga speech library? (I don't know who produced the program off hand -) There obviously isn't any hardware restriction excuses for poor speech quality - so I hope WB2.0 sounds REAL nice too. -David. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Jung djung@eco.ua.oz.au (eco is 129.127.4.9)
kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (06/11/90)
In article <38997.2671d506@eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au> djung@eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au writes: >Has anyone heard the program called KidTalk? >It's a kids program - the idea is that the kids type in stories and the >computer reads them. The speech on that program is REAL nice. The I would suggest you be VERY careful if considering the purchase of this program. I have only seen it run on ONE Amiga computer. Luckily, I purchased it from the local dealer who allowed me to exchange it for something I could get to run on my A1000. There were many problems with this program even when it appeared to be running on the one Amiga I got it to successfully load on. (Tried two different copies of the program on about 7 different Amigas). ==================================================================== Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu "Life's too short to have to do this on a PC" ====================================================================