SPAM@Mit-Ai@sri-unix (08/06/82)
Sender: SPAM at Mit-Mc Does anyone have any opinions on the relative merits of the different voice synthesizers now on the market? I am particularly interested in the ones that are RS-232 interfaced, and have built in text-to- phoneme conversion capability. (Of course I also want to directly output phoneme codes somehow). The three units that I'm aware of are the Type 'n Talk by Votrax, the Echo-GP by Street Electronics, and the Intex-talker from Intex Micro Systems. Are there any others that I've missed? I am particularly interested in the relative quality of the text-to-speech algorithms used. Are any of them more sophisticated than any other? Or do they all sound as bad as the Votrax unit? Please respond directly to me, and I will post a summary of anything interesting I find out to the list. Thanks, Dave Boulton (SPAM@MIT-AI)