Text to Voice in ENGLISH, Spanish, or Italian at http://vozme.com Famous Words Uttered by Jim Foley in 1994
http://vozme.com/speech/en/08f32763d2cdeb844293ba9079f5c19b.mp3 Btw ... this is lame. AT&T's reader is much more impressive. http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
So, eh... you waited for someone to post a thread so you could come in and say it was lame and offer AT&T's, but... you wouldn't share that one to begin with? LAME? How could you even say that... ? I agree. AT&T's is impressive. No doubt about it. Wait a minute... I am sure the people at "vozme" are a huge company with wireless capabilities, millions of people in their network of mobile subscribers, land lines, DSL lines, offices worldwide... etc... You wouldn't expect "vozme" to have such powerful server as AT&T, would you? All I'm saying is, there's no need to call the little guy "lame", when they're doing this for free and without "research" labs.
"Research labs"? There are free, open source libraries available that already do it. KDE (a linux desktop suite) comes with built in TTS capability now. It wouldn't take me a couple of weeks at the most to code up a little web application that does exactly what they do. There's nothing groundbreaking about text-to-speech these days anymore -- it would be impressive if they had achieved human-like voices with natural inflexions etc. that researchers at IBM, AT&T etc. have been working on for years. Online TTS generators have been around for at least two years now -- so yes, this is lame.
Yes, . So... eh, I can use the same code libraries they're using? Well, how in earth did you reach their page or found their site?
There are actually several open source TTS libraries available nowadays - Festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/), FreeTTS (http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php) are a couple. And anyone can use them. As for the AT&T page, I first found it on a Slashdot story about a new IBM TTS synthesizer a couple of years back. At the time several posters were dissing the IBM tech saying that AT&T was already doing what they were doing with better quality.
