From honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!cs.umd.edu!afterlife!jpcampb Mon Sep 13 16:30:54 EDT 1993 Article: 1208 of comp.speech Xref: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.speech:1208 Newsgroups: comp.speech Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!cs.umd.edu!afterlife!jpcampb From: jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Joe Campbell) Subject: Re: SpeechManager/MacInTalk Pro/PlainTalk aware applications Message-ID: <1993Sep13.024158.14858@afterlife.ncsc.mil> Organization: The Great Beyond References: <1993Sep3.152843.16684@worldbank.org> <1993Sep5.035610.16169@afterlife.ncsc.mil> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 02:41:58 GMT Lines: 91 Listing of Speech Manager/MacInTalk Pro/PlainTalk aware applications, 4e Here are some of the Speech Manager aware text-to-speech (TTS) applications that I know of (there are more on the Apple Developer CD-ROMs). If I've missed some, please feel free to add to the list and also let me know if you disagree with my "Comments." You'll probably need to increase the memory allocations of Speech Manager aware applications if you want to use the high quality voices (I generally add a Meg or two because the high quality voices need a lot of RAM).As for some applications, the ones I've been playing with follow. Apple's Speech Manager, with the high quality voices, has a synthesized voice quality and pronunciation that are among the best I've heard (Bellcore's Orator might do better with proper nouns). Do you agree? Has anyone done formal testing of the Speech Manager vs other TTS systems? If anyone has a Speech Manager aware application that allows graphical specification of pitch and rate trajectories (akin to SoundEdit's Bender), I'd love to hear about it. The Speech Manager is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.apple.com in /dts/mac/sys.soft/speech. There are 3 files in this directory: 6273632 Aug 14 22:51 macintalk-pro.hqx PlainTalk Text-to-Speech 1.0 speech synthesizer extension (includes Female Voice, Compressed); TTS Female Voice; TTS Male Voice; and TTS Male Voice, Compressed. 370108 Aug 13 04:30 speech-manager-docs.hqx Apple DocViewer format 262569 Aug 7 07:01 speech-manager.hqx Speech Manager 1.1.1 (includes Marvin's voice) and MacInTalk Voices 1.1.1 (9 more voices) Happy talkin' Joe ............................................................................. ; Dr. Campbell N3JBC jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil 74040.305@compuserve.com ; ; My opinions are mine! Happiness = Reality - Expectations, Click & Clack ; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Application Source Comments _______________ ________ _________________________________________________ Fortune 1.1 info-mac Like a talking UNIX fortune command - slick Tex-Edit 1.8.5 info-mac Talking word processor, McSink like, modeming Speecher 1.2.1 info-mac Customizable word substitution So To Speak 1.0b6 info-mac Two voice conversation (also see Fortune's About) Speaker 1.0.1 info-mac Simple text file editor, speaks on , macros VoiceDemo 1.0 info-mac Bare bones phrase talker Welcome!v1.3.1 info-mac A talking Welcome to Macintosh startup (v1.4?) Homer 0.92d9 zaphod.ee.pitt.edu GUI IRC client, assign nicks voices - slick Siege Watch 1.01f info-mac Wryly political speaking clock SpeechManagerdemo info-mac Command line interface, C source, aka -explorer Speak It! info-mac Type in a message and have it spoken Eliza 3.1 AOL Talking Eliza (Rogerian psych therapist) speek-02b info-mac speech XCMD for hypercard Speech Pack 2.0 4th Dimension external, add speech to data-base Speech Rhythms AOL A cool text file for one of the above apps: ss cc cc tt cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ss cc cc tt cc cc ra ra ra,,, Here are a few rhythms I came up with. Drop me a line and let me know how you ll ll ll ll ll like them. Ken Lacovara,,, Bossa Nova, xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx Conga, xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx Jazz, xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx Rock, tt xx tt tt xx tt tt xx tt tt tt xx tt xx tt tt xx tt tt xx tt tt tt xx Military, cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ,,,,, That's ebedee ebedee ebedee ebedee all folks! pp pp pp pp pp pp pp -- ............................................................................. ; Dr. Campbell N3JBC jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil 74040.305@compuserve.com ; ; My opinions are mine! Happiness = Reality - Expectations, Click & Clack ; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~