Re: [Nettime-bold] Speech synthesis

[Ken Feingold <kenf@panix.com>]

If anyone on the list might be thinking about using this AT&T SDK, I can
tell you this to save a bit of your time: the SDK cost is US$5,000 and
it requires 500MB of memory to run, plus the runtime license it $750 per
port.  The "replicate any voice" feature is not yet commercially
available.

regards,
Ken

Neal Thomas wrote:
> 
> If your computer is equipped with sound, I recommend a
> visit to the latest iteration of the AT&T Bell Labs
> TTS project, text-to-speech synthesis that just got an
> upgrade in creepiness:
> 
> http://www.research.att.com/~mjm/cgi-bin/ttsdemo
> 
> They claim they will be able to replicate any voice.
> The pacing is still ridiculous, but the inflections
> are wonderfully hyperreal. The guy kind of sounds like
> the actor from Army of Darkness.
> 
> Neal Thomas
> Assistant Professor, Multimedia
> University of Lethbridge
> 
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