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petur is offline petur
2011-03-02 , 13:46
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#550
Originally Posted by HughF_UK View Post
I love how far voice synthesis has come in the last 20 years, sounds marginally better than the currah microspeach on my zx spectrum

But hey, thay is espeaks fault I guess, the rest of things is sweet in this software. Still not a viable replacement for my tomtom though.
I'm doing contract work for a company called Nuance, who deliver the TTS to all major players (including TomTom). I hear their output all the time, and it makes me say that eSpeak is utter crap It is decades behind commercial offerings.
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