I am glad the master WAV files for the speech synthesis CD that were sitting on my hard drive all these years and fairly recently discovered out of pure boredom are getting put to good use. In my opinion, the master's thesis that these are part of is an interesting read if you are ever curious about how speech synthesis works. This is actually what really got me interested in understanding speech synthesis technology at a deeper level, and I am glad I preserved a high quality copy of it. For anyone who is curious as to how I got this, I downloaded a bunch of text to speech engines several years ago, and Mikropuhe 5.1 (a Finnish speech synthesizer) was included among them. This master's thesis was included as bonus content with that particular engine.
Would you happen to know if any versions of Lucent Technologies' text-to-speech programs still happen to exist? It seems like the TTS program was shuttered when the company downsized in 2002, and since the program was website-based, it doesn't seem like any archived versions of the website exist in a functional state. I ask because I've heard anecdotally that the announcement VOX for the game _Half-Life_ (1998) likely used the "Big Man" voice parameter from the program, and I wanted to confirm it for myself. I've also heard that the voice can be replicated in the Watson and FlexTalk SAPI release TTS programs, but can't figure out how to verify it for myself.
This is the voice we know well 0:23
I am glad the master WAV files for the speech synthesis CD that were sitting on my hard drive all these years and fairly recently discovered out of pure boredom are getting put to good use. In my opinion, the master's thesis that these are part of is an interesting read if you are ever curious about how speech synthesis works. This is actually what really got me interested in understanding speech synthesis technology at a deeper level, and I am glad I preserved a high quality copy of it.
For anyone who is curious as to how I got this, I downloaded a bunch of text to speech engines several years ago, and Mikropuhe 5.1 (a Finnish speech synthesizer) was included among them. This master's thesis was included as bonus content with that particular engine.
The Prototype and SAPI3 are the same
But SAPI4 is different.
Would you happen to know if any versions of Lucent Technologies' text-to-speech programs still happen to exist? It seems like the TTS program was shuttered when the company downsized in 2002, and since the program was website-based, it doesn't seem like any archived versions of the website exist in a functional state. I ask because I've heard anecdotally that the announcement VOX for the game _Half-Life_ (1998) likely used the "Big Man" voice parameter from the program, and I wanted to confirm it for myself.
I've also heard that the voice can be replicated in the Watson and FlexTalk SAPI release TTS programs, but can't figure out how to verify it for myself.
Microsoft Mike: I do not talk like a lady
I saw your deviant art i don't like fetish art but i respect the way you are also i liked your baldi character pencil boy
That's fine, but I think my friends had no problem with that.