Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpspdra!hpcmsrb!hprnlin!alan From: alan@hprnlin.rnd.hp (Alan Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: is there a better speech synthesizer than SAY? Message-ID: <8940009@hprnlin.rnd.hp> Date: 27 Jun 88 15:54:20 GMT References: <7495@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: HP Roseville Manufacturing Operation Lines: 19 > I'm looking for a speech synthesizer (PD or commercial) that >can be configured to sound "more natural" than SAY. What bothers me >is not SAY's inflection or pronunciation, but the quality of its audio. >Can anybody enlighten me on how to avoid this (or why it can't be avoided?) There is a program that will probably suit your needs. Its called Smooth Talker ("ported" from the Mac). It sounds pretty good but tends to 'inflect' a bit much for my liking. It is worth a few good laughs though.... +-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | -Al Harrington ________ | Instant Guru BBS | | |__/\__| | (916) 457-7176 | | | 60 Megs - All Amiga! | | ..ucbvax!hplabs!hprnlin!alan | GT Net/Node 005/002 | | ..ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!athena!haringtn | Baud: 1200/2400 Hours: 24 | +-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | All comments are *MINE* Instant Guru BBS may be held responsible :^) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+