Comments on: Text to Speech

Text to Speech

tozturk — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:18:26 -0800

AT&T Text to Spech put out by AT&T labs is interesting to play around with. Select your language and accent and then go wild. You can even translate if you select the right accent.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:22:37 -0800

this is like five years old.

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:22:42 -0800

Our Amiga computer could do simple text-to-speech over 20 years ago. I wasn't expecting much progress, but it does sound like they're finally close to natural-sounding speech.

By: EmoChild

EmoChild — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:24:57 -0800

Cool post. Thank you. My mac from 1984 could do some pretty decent text to speech. It is amazing it has taken them this long to improve a bit.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:28:18 -0800

[this is old]

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:28:51 -0800

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:46:22 -0800

Don't let the lawn guarders get you down this is wicked cool. Thanks tozturk.

By: banished

banished — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:52:05 -0800

Double post.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:58:50 -0800

it has a spech impeedamint.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:01:52 -0800

Deleted thread sing-a-long !

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:04:36 -0800

since this will be deleted anyway...

By: socratic

socratic — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:05:49 -0800

felix - lol <-- and i never, ever use that term.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:16:37 -0800

Actually, banished, the post you linked to was a triple post already. It was also posted on Sep 5 2001 and June 4 2001. I am sad that felix's links don't work for me.

By: toftflin

toftflin — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:17:48 -0800

I would recommend testing it with: fhqwhgads

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:25:46 -0800

It's really fun to make the female voices say dirty stuff.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:27:05 -0800

It's really fun to make the female voices say dirty stuff. I like Audrey, the British lady.

By: kalimac

kalimac — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:29:47 -0800

They all sound like they're reciting beat poetry.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:33:55 -0800

last time I saw this it didn't have the german/french/spanish voices. Pretty cool. thanks.

By: andendau

andendau — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:34:22 -0800

How about the one where they typed in certain words to make the At&t bot speak with an accent! oh good times.

By: banished

banished — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:58:57 -0800

blacklite... I was aware of the Sept. 5th post, which is why when I said double post I was being witty. There was double meaning there. I didn't catch the June 4th post though... but the fact that it is Lucent Technologies and not specifically AT@T gets me off on a technicality and leaves my wit intact I think.

By: blendor

blendor — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:00:17 -0800

Endless puerile fun.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:17:45 -0800

fhqwhgads Everybody to the limit!!!!

By: reflection

reflection — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:32:39 -0800

what banished failed to point out with his double-post link is that this is a double post of 2002 of a double-post from 2001, and even then someone said " That's actually about 3-4 years old." lol

By: reflection

reflection — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:33:40 -0800

oh damn, a double-post of a double-post of a double-post. now that's bad.

By: greatgefilte

greatgefilte — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:52:24 -0800

Does anyone remember that online skit done in all-synthesized voices? Something about micromanagement and bosses, I seem to recall. Got a link?

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sat, 07 May 2005 22:16:59 -0800

a triple double post? oh shit, doesn't that mean someone has to get castrated? And this would be cooler if you could give it an RSS feed or large blocks of text to convert. Then blogs could be auto podcast.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 07 May 2005 22:18:45 -0800

I'm sure the shears are heating up in a good strong flame already, fenriq. (oh man, I just scared myself with that mental image.)

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Sat, 07 May 2005 22:24:41 -0800

I tried plugging in Bob Burn's 'Ode to a Haggis' with the male UK accent and was sorely, sorely, verily, & extremely, disappointed.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Sat, 07 May 2005 23:13:39 -0800

Amigas, Macs, fooey. I heard decent text to speech from a TI 99/4A in 1981/2. So neener. Also, I was *the master* of Dungeons of Daggorath. a r a r a r a r a r a r a r

By: BoringPostcards

BoringPostcards — Sat, 07 May 2005 23:26:21 -0800

I've never seen this before.. thanks, tozturk.

By: nohat

nohat — Sun, 08 May 2005 00:50:46 -0800

See the Wikipedia article on Speech synthesis for information about how this works, and browse the external links for some more modern TTS engines that sound more natural than AT&T's "Natural Voices", which they haven't spent any development on since about 2001. Be sure to check out Rhetorical's rVoice, Speechworks' RealSpeak, and Nuance's Vocalizer. They all sound much better than AT&T Natural Voices.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sun, 08 May 2005 07:43:38 -0800

Anyone know of a tool like this that produces speech like that of Joshua in WarGames?

By: wendell

wendell — Sun, 08 May 2005 12:18:24 -0800

Don't think of it as a Triple Double Post, just think of it as "A Classic MeFi Encore".

By: damnitkage

damnitkage — Sun, 08 May 2005 19:16:16 -0800

So it's a double, triple, quadruple, etc. post. Who gives a rats ass? It's fun to screw around with if you haven't thought of it in ages.

By: ttopher

ttopher — Mon, 09 May 2005 09:27:50 -0800

It's really fun to make the female voices say dirty stuff. Especially in the middle of class back in 8th grade.