I have one over-riding question to anyone/everyone: is this of any value? Would this be useful to anyone here, either personally, or to share with others?
Sure, but no for me personally. As a matter of course I put my text based books through TextAloud. The quality is such that I’ve actually got fed up with ‘official’ audio versions of several books and replaced them with the computer generated version. In fact, given the characters in MoR the computer generated voice is probably going to sound more realistic! :P
Could you post a sample? I run Linux and tried espeak and festival and wasn’t particularly impressed. Do you have any tricks you might share? I’m interested in this, but noted that computer synthesis can’t interpret article structure and certain pauses, etc.
I wondered if you do anything special or just have TextAloud read a file as-is.
Sure, but no for me personally. As a matter of course I put my text based books through TextAloud. The quality is such that I’ve actually got fed up with ‘official’ audio versions of several books and replaced them with the computer generated version. In fact, given the characters in MoR the computer generated voice is probably going to sound more realistic! :P
Could you post a sample? I run Linux and tried espeak and festival and wasn’t particularly impressed. Do you have any tricks you might share? I’m interested in this, but noted that computer synthesis can’t interpret article structure and certain pauses, etc.
I wondered if you do anything special or just have TextAloud read a file as-is.