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BetterRed · 02-21-2017, 11:52 AM

@jackie_w - I think I've sampled most 'voices' from Acapela etc and to me they all sound like Milton Keynes looks - pleasantly boring. TTS seems to have barely progressed since I used DecTalk boxes in call centre voice response units in the 1980's, the sound quality is a lot better but the rest...

The problem is that the intonation one might use on italicised text in an ironical statement would be different to that one might use in an adversarial challenge. TTS needs to do deep linguistic analysis (syntax + semantics + idiom, cant, figurative speech, metaphor etc) of the text and get the right base intonation, before it has any chance of using an appropriate tone for italics.

If that were available then the studios wouldn't be using regular actors to do the voice overs for animated movies. And radio broadcasters could get rid of their newsreaders.

If the BBC used what's available now, we wouldn't have to listen to the sneers that drip from their newsreaders tongues whenever they have to mention people of whom they don't approve.

BR

02-21-2017, 11:52 AM	#45
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,874 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@jackie_w - I think I've sampled most 'voices' from Acapela etc and to me they all sound like Milton Keynes looks - pleasantly boring. TTS seems to have barely progressed since I used DecTalk boxes in call centre voice response units in the 1980's, the sound quality is a lot better but the rest... The problem is that the intonation one might use on italicised text in an ironical statement would be different to that one might use in an adversarial challenge. TTS needs to do deep linguistic analysis (syntax + semantics + idiom, cant, figurative speech, metaphor etc) of the text and get the right base intonation, before it has any chance of using an appropriate tone for italics. If that were available then the studios wouldn't be using regular actors to do the voice overs for animated movies. And radio broadcasters could get rid of their newsreaders. If the BBC used what's available now, we wouldn't have to listen to the sneers that drip from their newsreaders tongues whenever they have to mention people of whom they don't approve. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 02-21-2017 at 11:55 AM.