Discussion » Voice Synthesis

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Posted by earthworm, 18:16, 2nd July 2004:
 
hahahahaha

this rocks!!!

www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi

how many cool things can you make it say??? And it's the best Voice Synthesis I ahve heard online yet!
Posted by Brock, 18:20, 2nd July 2004:
 
The others must have been shite, then. The emphasis is all wrong, and it sounds a bit Dalek-y. Even if I download the highest .wav to play.

Me no likey.
Posted by jeffld, 19:01, 2nd July 2004:
 
I like the valley girl one.

sleepy.wav
Posted by cal, 19:13, 2nd July 2004:
 
genius
Posted by Sul, 19:28, 2nd July 2004:
 
I've never had so many computer generated voices come on to me :)
Posted by Sul, 19:39, 2nd July 2004:
 
Oh shit, now I'm going to get hard whenever I hear old Stevey talking about things plunging into blackholes. :/
Posted by Saltation, 21:16, 2nd July 2004:
 
buttttt (hey, pun!) you did anyway
Posted by Saltation, 21:25, 2nd July 2004:
 
errr.... the british and australian accents could politely be described as pants, or as, in an australian accent: complete and utter shit you gotta be jokin mate
Posted by Saltation, 21:29, 2nd July 2004:
 
absolutely inapt and inapposite translation

try entering ANY standard australian phrasing, and get the following west coast murrcain bleating:

This rVoice demo is made available for non-commercial demonstration purposes only. Inappropriate text will not be synthesized


as we say in oz: pfft, mate
Posted by cal, 01:49, 3rd July 2004:
 
the scottish woman's good at saying "pissflaps"

/me has too much time on his hands
Posted by Saltation, 17:42, 3rd July 2004:
 
that's the BEST TYPE of time!
Posted by Saltation, 19:36, 7th July 2004:
 
another one:
www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.h...
Posted by moitio, 20:20, 7th July 2004:
 
I like the att one better. Although whenever I use it I get a huge doseage of De-ja-vu.
Posted by Saltation, 21:37, 7th July 2004:
 
why?