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--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> ---

>User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.4.060510
>Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:59:47 -0600
>Subject: Text to Speech
>From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
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>Thread-Topic: Text to Speech
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I have been collecting TTS (text-to-speech) demo sites with foreign language
capabilities. They are of uneven quality:

AT&T Research Text-To-Speech (TTS)
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
 
Demo Cepstral Voices
http://www.cepstral.com/demos/
 
Loquendo
http://actor.loquendo.com/actordemo/
 
Acapella HQ TTS Interactive Demo
http://demo.acapela-group.com/
 
Oddcast TTS demo (with SitePal)
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
 
Voice Reader Online (Linguatec, with sitepal)
http://www.linguatec.net/onlineservices/voice_reader/site
 
NeoSpeech VoiceText Online Demonstration (Japanese, Chinese, Korean)
http://www.neospeech.com/demo/demo_text.php
 
REALSPEAK Interactive demo (have to sign up, gives you a wav file)
http://212.8.184.250/tts/demo_login.jsp
 
Speech Synthesis Demo at the IMS (German only, select format)
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/synthesis/synthesis_demo.html
 
Interactive Demo of SVOX (German, come back later)
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/_w3svox
 
Speech Technology Group: Text-to-Speech Demo for Spanish (concatenative)
http://www-gth.die.upm.es/research/synthesis/synth-form-concat.html
 
WebSphere Voice (French, Spanish, German, sounds a bit primitive)
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/pervasive/tech/demos/tts.shtml


Have I missed any which you know about?

TBob

Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
Professor of French
Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
University of Tennessee at Martin
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Director, Globegate Intercultural Web Project
Editor, Societe Francois Villon Bulletin
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