Guest paulend Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 anyone know if yu can download this for free? ive looked on the website but all i can get is the demo, but cant download the wav's. I want my phone to speak :!: ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 If you've got two email addresses you could always use the dictaphone function to record yourself saying "PAUL, IT'S ME! YOUR PHONE! ANSWER ME GODDAMMIT!" Email yourself the wav and hey-ho and away we go... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SPLATT! Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 anyone know if yu can download this for free? ive looked on the website but all i can get is the demo, but cant download the wav's. I want my phone to speak :!: ;) I've used their demo on the net. It plays back through Windows Media Player. Once you have played the sample, click on FileSave As. Then simply copy it to your phone. I have not tried this at home, only at work on my NT 4 box with Media Player 6.4x. I think it should still work though. I will try it tonight and post the results, unless somebody has access to something other than my 'State of the Ark' PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 Yeah it can be done like that. I thought i had the page bookmarked, apparently not. I'm running WinXP Pro with WMP9 so there aren't any compatability problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest paulend Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 cheers lads, ill have a proper play with it later ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SPLATT! Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 Yeah it can be done like that. I thought i had the page bookmarked, apparently not. I'm running WinXP Pro with WMP9 so there aren't any compatability problems. Can be found at: http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AsherUK Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 cheers lads, ill have a proper play with it later :lol: Is it just me or is that more information than we needed ?! :shock: ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HelloDave Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival is another speech synthesizer with online demos, although their server is down at the moment. I did have some free software once called ReadPlease 2000 that could do text to speech locally using M$'s libraries, but i'm not sure if it's still available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SPLATT! Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 I did have some free software once called ReadPlease 2000 that could do text to speech locally using M$'s libraries, but i'm not sure if it's still available. It still is, from http://www.readplease.com/rpfree.php. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cbcox Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 I can't get the demo to work, generates a fatal error on their webserver ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SPLATT! Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 I have downloaded the demo. It does a reasonable job of the text to speech conversion, but I can not see how you can save the speech to a .wav file. It also has some vicious AV's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HelloDave Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 A quick hack to save a wav file is to use sound recorder or similar program, set the record source on your soundcard to its own output (on my PC its called "stereo mix" or it could be called "loopback" or similar) and then click record in sound recorder and play the speech in ReadPlease. Trim off any start and end silences and you have a speech recording! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Oakley Posted January 27, 2003 Report Share Posted January 27, 2003 You could also try the following - it creates a wav file for you to save... http://www.speechworks.com/demos/speechify.cfm -oAk- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest paulend Posted January 27, 2003 Report Share Posted January 27, 2003 i just opened the url with wmp and saved it from there ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ianintheworld Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 I used the AT&T synthesiser and then went to my internet cache - C:Documents and Settingsyour user nameLocal SettingsTemporary Internet Files and look for the output_#.wav It numbers the files according to each playback so # could be 1 to whatever.... I used the 22k wav uk english audrey generator and managed to secure each file this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest webba Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Hi there, Im new but im actually a former TTS Engineer, one of the few in the UK, ATnT TTS costs £2k! and you can add a custom voice for 200k each! If u get an 'ahem' copy it stikll requires about a gig of ram to work decently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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