On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:21:08 +0000 "David J. Ruck" <dr...@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen > readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which > you can use to change the emphaisis. They actually read passages of > text superbly well with, and honestly, sometimes it is extremely > difficult to tell it appart from an actual recording. A friend of mine makes use of the Dolphin stuff; the synthesiser that shipped with it was pretty dreadful. Fortunately, it supports SAPI, so buying him a copy of a sexy woman's voice from AT&T's Natural Voices product line for his birthday one year went down extremely well :) I've never heard bank statements sound so *filthy*. B.
