Feeling left out because you don’t have an Apple iPhone 4S and can’t have a relationship with Siri? Don’t despair, True Knowledge this week unveiled Evi, a voice assistant app for Apple OS and Android phones. Evi is available on Android’s app store for 99 cents and she can also be downloaded from iTunes. According [...]
The new program he uses, however, has a unique feature: it uses Ebert’s voice when converting his text to speech.
Google Translate just announced that it will attempt to improve it’s speech synthesis by using Phonetic Art’s products.
Hey Speech-Heads, Check out this great use of TTS: Movie Critic Roger Ebert–who is recovering from a serious bout with thyroid cancer that rendered him speechless–has been using TTS to communicate. However, Ebert’s TTS recently got a new voice–his own. His new voice by CereProc is programmed from collected audio clips and snippets from the [...]
Today, The New York Times reported that Amazon’s Kindle 2 much vaunted text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, provided by Nuance Communications, came up short when trying to pronounce President Barack Obama’s name. The device uttered something closer to Baah-raah-k O-baah-maah (closer to the sounds in “black” and “Alabama,” the Times said. The paper adds that the problem [...]
Do you know what time it is Speech-Heads? Time for the latest installment of Talking Gadget Theater. This time, Kindle 2 TTS and iPod shuffle TTS are performing a scene from The Empire Strikes Back. As my Speech Brother Eric B. said: “This may be their best work to date! Also: I love sandwiches.”
Hi Speech-Heads, If you enjoyed my last post, then you will definitely want to check out the next installment of Talking Gadget Theater. This time, Kindle 2 TTS and iPod shuffle TTS perform a scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. When I told my Speech Brother Eric B. about this one, he [...]
