Text to speech demo from AT&T labs

Post by **Patrick** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 6:53 am

Check out the demo of a text to speech app from AT&T labs:
http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html

FYI, none of the voices pronounced linux correctly. They all say L-E-E-N-U-X

mrben · Post by **mrben** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:39 am

The UK English was reasonably close.....

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:04 am

The "lauren - US" voice said Linux perfectly... at least it sounded so to me.

mowestusa · Post by **mowestusa** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:11 pm

A friend of mine has a text to speach program that he bought for $49 that came with the AT&T voices for Windows, and I have to say that I was excited to hear it. He is taking online courses which have tons of reading in PDF files. He uses the program on a laptop in the car because he has to drive a lot with his management job, and listens all day to his textbooks in the car.

It does sound awesome. Do we have anyway to use that in Linux or anything that compares? I've tried Festival, but it seems like it is just a command line app which can read text files, but reading PDF's would be nice. Also the voices that I've tried with Festival don't seem to really be that great.

mowestusa