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Title: text to speech question
Post by: lefkos on June 30, 2008, 03:09:39 pm

hi there
i commonly saw replys that many of you simply hate microsoft sam etc
but i alsways liked it way more than the voiceless campaignes
anyways.. i  found something quit good (it costs money but still)
its called at&t natural voices
if im going to try them how can i import them into in the launcher so that i can select them?
or is this not possible with those tekst to speech voices

ps i didnt acxacly knew where to place this topic

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: Cobra on July 06, 2008, 11:34:53 pm

I don't think you can, and I wouldn't want to spend money just to have a different Microsoft voice that I never use.

Quote from: lefkos on June 30, 2008, 03:09:39 pm

acxacly

:wtf:

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: karajorma on July 09, 2008, 05:52:34 am

You can use them. I have in the past and I keep being tempted to install them again now.

The problem I had with them was that they were a serious performance drain. But my PC is faster now so I'm tempted again.

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: S-99 on July 15, 2008, 05:54:11 pm

I love microsoft sam. :yes: He's my friend. He's such a classic too.

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: Hellstryker on July 26, 2008, 01:26:10 pm

LOoLoLolOLOlooLOL --Master Chief. Yeah guys, what are you talking about? MS Sam is great.

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 26, 2008, 02:04:57 pm

Arby and the Chief :) Cortana never sounded better Lozzle :lol:

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: CP5670 on July 26, 2008, 02:53:03 pm

I find no voices to be far preferable to Microsoft Sam. That particular voice is so unbelievably bad that it just ruins all the immersion. :p There are much better speech engines out there though.

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: Cobra on July 26, 2008, 03:01:06 pm

Oh, do tell. Maybe I could give one a shot. :P

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: CP5670 on July 26, 2008, 03:42:34 pm

Well, I haven't actually used any myself. That AT&T package has been mentioned here before though and is supposed to be a lot better.

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: BlackDove on July 27, 2008, 11:37:54 am

Somebody post some god damn samples already.

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: karajorma on July 28, 2008, 09:47:01 am

Test it yourselves.

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

Title: Re: text to speech question
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 28, 2008, 11:57:40 am

I think vista's female voice isn't that bad on the ears.