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|    Paul to R.Wieser    |
|    Re: Found this speaking time vbs batch s    |
|    12 Jun 20 19:15:40    |
      XPost: alt.comp.freeware, alt.comp.os.windows-10       From: nospam@needed.invalid              R.Wieser wrote:       > Mayayana,       >       >> If you care, the Michael and Mary voices were       >> made available by someone as an XP installable.       >       > Do you perhaps have some more info ?       >       > A number of years ago I tried to add a more understandable voice to my       > XPsp3, but hit a brick wall when the voice-files I downloaded never wanted       > to work - and often didn't even contain files ending in either .sdf or .spd       > (as the "sam" voice-files do).       >       > Most of the time I can't understand what the "sam" voice says, even though       > I've entered the text myself. Heck, just emitting a few beeps is currently       > often more helpfull. :-(       >       > Regards,       > Rudy Wieser              I blame the lousy voices on Windows, on the "Bubbles" voice       on MacOS :-) That set the precedent for crap.              It seems OS companies are not interested in particularly       moving quickly in that area, whereas commercial synthesis       companies sell web based TTS and dictation for muí dinero.       When a scam phone call claiming to be the CRA arrives       on my phone, the synthesized voice on there sounds better       than an OS TTS.              I thought ATT made some voice files available, but I was never       able to track down a working example.              https://superuser.com/questions/1020849/get-more-microsoft-text-       o-speech-voices               Paul              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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