Text-to-Speech engines

[chs245]

Hi
can anyone recommend a good text to speech engine. I currently use the build-in voices in XP, but they have limited functionality (for example, i would like to train the engine to pronounce stock market related words in special ways (such as SES pronounced S...E...C and not as in secondary)

Oliver

 

[bungrider]

http://www.dtniq.com/template.cfm?navgroup=supportlist&urlcode=33&view=1

 

[chs245]

Quote from bungrider:

http://www.dtniq.com/template.cfm?navgroup=supportlist&urlcode=33&view=1

I have installed the software (although I'm not using DTN). It seems that is installs 2 new voices on the system. Is that all ?

Oliver

 

[vanilla2]

i use readplease 2003, and i know what you're talking about. in order to get it to pronounce acronyms or tickers as hard vowels, i had to trick it by spelling some things phonetically. for example, "SES" may come out right as "S EE S"

 

[ElectricSavant]

Have you tried using your own voice in wav.files....that would be kewl...

Michael B.

 

[vanilla2]

lol, funny, no i haven't. that would be so wierd.

"hey ... HEY, i think you better take this loss buddy"