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    Funny, though seemingly useless unless you're declaring war on Scientology.
     
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    Unfortunately, AT&T only stores samples for 5 minutes...
     
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    So, eh... you waited for someone to post a thread so you could come in and say it was lame and offer AT&T's, but... you wouldn't share that one to begin with?

    LAME? How could you even say that... :confused: ? I agree. AT&T's is impressive. No doubt about it.

    Wait a minute... I am sure the people at "vozme" are a huge company with wireless capabilities, millions of people in their network of mobile subscribers, land lines, DSL lines, offices worldwide... etc... :rolleyes:

    You wouldn't expect "vozme" to have such powerful server as AT&T, would you? All I'm saying is, there's no need to call the little guy "lame", when they're doing this for free and without "research" labs. :)
     
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    "Research labs"? There are free, open source libraries available that already do it. KDE (a linux desktop suite) comes with built in TTS capability now. It wouldn't take me a couple of weeks at the most to code up a little web application that does exactly what they do. There's nothing groundbreaking about text-to-speech these days anymore -- it would be impressive if they had achieved human-like voices with natural inflexions etc. that researchers at IBM, AT&T etc. have been working on for years. Online TTS generators have been around for at least two years now -- so yes, this is lame.
     
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    Yes,
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    So... eh, I can use the same code libraries they're using?

    Well, how in earth did you reach their page or found their site? :eek:
     
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    There are actually several open source TTS libraries available nowadays - Festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/), FreeTTS (http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php) are a couple. And anyone can use them. As for the AT&T page, I first found it on a Slashdot story about a new IBM TTS synthesizer a couple of years back. At the time several posters were dissing the IBM tech saying that AT&T was already doing what they were doing with better quality.
     
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