 | | From: | John D. Gwinner | | Subject: | Script writing TTS software | | Date: | Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:37:25 GMT |
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 | Is there any type of text to speech software that allows control over
inflections on a word (or phoneme) by word basis?
I'm trying to do some animations, and would like control over exactly how
the TTS characters speak.
For example:
I don't know THAT
I DONT know THAT
I don't KNOW that
all impact totally different meanings when spoken out loud. Most TTS
software demo's I've seen only allow you to change the pitch and rate for
the entire sample.
Preferably something SAPI compatible so I can buy some high quality voices.
I could *write one* if there is enough demand, but I would think something
would already exist.
== John ==
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| | From: | woodcocs | | Subject: | Re: Script writing TTS software | | Date: | 8 Dec 2004 11:16:04 -0800 |
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| You might want to look at http://web.media.mit.edu/~erikb/poemshop/
Poem Shop was devised as an assistive software program, but it may
provide what you are looking for.
Regards
Steve
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| | From: | cyclejb at gmail.com | | Subject: | Re: Script writing TTS software | | Date: | 7 Dec 2004 15:43:19 -0800 |
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| John D. Gwinner wrote:
> Is there any type of text to speech software that allows control over
> inflections on a word (or phoneme) by word basis?
>
> I'm trying to do some animations, and would like control over exactly
how
> the TTS characters speak.
>
> For example:
>
> I don't know THAT
> I DONT know THAT
> I don't KNOW that
>
> all impact totally different meanings when spoken out loud. Most TTS
> software demo's I've seen only allow you to change the pitch and rate
for
> the entire sample.
>
> Preferably something SAPI compatible so I can buy some high quality
voices.
>
> I could *write one* if there is enough demand, but I would think
something
> would already exist.
>
> == John ==
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| | From: | Andrew | | Subject: | Re: Script writing TTS software | | Date: | 09 Dec 2004 02:54:04 GMT |
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| "John D. Gwinner" writes:
>Is there any type of text to speech software that allows control over
>inflections on a word (or phoneme) by word basis?
>I'm trying to do some animations, and would like control over exactly how
>the TTS characters speak.
>For example:
>I don't know THAT
>I DONT know THAT
>I don't KNOW that
>all impact totally different meanings when spoken out loud. Most TTS
>software demo's I've seen only allow you to change the pitch and rate for
>the entire sample.
Speech Engines which support SABLE, JSML or SSML can do things like this. SSML
support will be your best bet, as it supercedes both JSML and SABLE.
I know Festival offers support for SABLE, which can do emphasis, pitch and rate
settings in XML tags (and you can have as many or as few words as you like in
the scope of those tags). I'm sure there are others too. SSML support might be
a bit harder to find, given that it's only recently become a W3C recommendation.
>Preferably something SAPI compatible so I can buy some high quality voices.
SAPI compatible might be a problem. From memory (as you no doubt have already
found) the SAPI tags available don't allow the level of control you're after. I
have no knowledge of whether any SSML capable, SAPI compliant engine exists.
Cheers,
Andrew
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| | From: | Dave Wood [MS] | | Subject: | Re: Script writing TTS software | | Date: | Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:56:35 -0800 |
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Hi folks,
The TTS engines that ship with SAPI 5.1 support emphasis, rate, pitch etc.
adjustment through tags such as , , , etc.
You can see details of this in the Speech SDK 5.1 help in the section
"Whitepapers - XML Schema : SAPI" and "Whitepapers - XML TTS Tutorial".
Support for the W3C SSML markup is being considered for future Microsoft
Speech API releases and is included in the Microsoft Speech Server product.
Dave Wood
Speech Group
Microsoft
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"Andrew" wrote in message
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> "John D. Gwinner" writes:
>
>>Is there any type of text to speech software that allows control over
>>inflections on a word (or phoneme) by word basis?
>
>>I'm trying to do some animations, and would like control over exactly how
>>the TTS characters speak.
>
>>For example:
>
>>I don't know THAT
>>I DONT know THAT
>>I don't KNOW that
>
>>all impact totally different meanings when spoken out loud. Most TTS
>>software demo's I've seen only allow you to change the pitch and rate for
>>the entire sample.
>
> Speech Engines which support SABLE, JSML or SSML can do things like this.
> SSML
> support will be your best bet, as it supercedes both JSML and SABLE.
>
> I know Festival offers support for SABLE, which can do emphasis, pitch and
> rate
> settings in XML tags (and you can have as many or as few words as you like
> in
> the scope of those tags). I'm sure there are others too. SSML support
> might be
> a bit harder to find, given that it's only recently become a W3C
> recommendation.
>
>>Preferably something SAPI compatible so I can buy some high quality
>>voices.
>
> SAPI compatible might be a problem. From memory (as you no doubt have
> already
> found) the SAPI tags available don't allow the level of control you're
> after. I
> have no knowledge of whether any SSML capable, SAPI compliant engine
> exists.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
>
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| | From: | Steve Underwood | | Subject: | Re: Script writing TTS software | | Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:24:29 +0800 |
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| I don't think I've seen a package that doesn't allow at least some
control over inflection. The sad thing is there is an XML standard for
this, which most people claim to support but don't really.
Steve
John D. Gwinner wrote:
> Is there any type of text to speech software that allows control over
> inflections on a word (or phoneme) by word basis?
>
> I'm trying to do some animations, and would like control over exactly how
> the TTS characters speak.
>
> For example:
>
> I don't know THAT
> I DONT know THAT
> I don't KNOW that
>
> all impact totally different meanings when spoken out loud. Most TTS
> software demo's I've seen only allow you to change the pitch and rate for
> the entire sample.
>
> Preferably something SAPI compatible so I can buy some high quality voices.
>
> I could *write one* if there is enough demand, but I would think something
> would already exist.
>
> == John ==
>
>
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| | From: | cyclejb at gmail.com | | Subject: | Re: Script writing TTS software | | Date: | 7 Dec 2004 15:43:08 -0800 |
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John D. Gwinner wrote:
> Is there any type of text to speech software that allows control over
> inflections on a word (or phoneme) by word basis?
>
> I'm trying to do some animations, and would like control over exactly
how
> the TTS characters speak.
>
> For example:
>
> I don't know THAT
> I DONT know THAT
> I don't KNOW that
>
> all impact totally different meanings when spoken out loud. Most TTS
> software demo's I've seen only allow you to change the pitch and rate
for
> the entire sample.
>
> Preferably something SAPI compatible so I can buy some high quality
voices.
>
> I could *write one* if there is enough demand, but I would think
something
> would already exist.
>
> == John ==
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