--- 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]> >To: LLTI <[log in to unmask]> >Thread-Topic: Text to Speech >Thread-Index: Acg3cQEjP/d+KKNkEdy3VwAbY5TpeA== 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 [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************