Kenny, Great Painting!
Travelers - good luck!
H_T: Quake 2? Not 3, not 4?
Just to clarify for some minds - tts *is* text to speach. Nothing missing between the "t"s. It would have been much easier...
But, I found the files for the female american english voice and am downloading them. I hope no additional plugins are needed.
Here is, btw a copy of the
only info I found of why there are no more official downloads.
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One last feature to note is the ability for the Yepp P3 to play Text-to-Speech (TTS) files. The synthesized voices offered by Samsung sound surprisingly natural, and a number of male and female voices are available for different languages including 3 sets of English for American, British, and Austrailian accents. What sucks though is that this technology will soon be kaput. Effective March 31st and coinciding with the P3's April launch in America, Samsung will no longer be offering downloads of the voice packs required for converting plaintext files into TTS. In all likelyhood, this loss of functionality can be attributed to the fallout between Amazon.com's Kindle 2 eBook reader and the Authors Guild who threw a hissy fit when they learned that people could convert text to speech without paying additional royalties. Wankers. Samsung's probably just trying to avoid the impending litigation from the same. We'd mirror the TTS packs here at Everything USB if it weren't for our servers being located in America, but maybe we'll get lucky and someone will seed the packs on BitTorrent. Streisand effect, anyone?
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