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I don't understand this Stanza feature
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Does this mean there is some kind of text to speech software in Stanza? |
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It looks like they do have text to speech but not for the Windows version.
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"Machine generated" speech is pretty dire for audio books; I can't listen to it.
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One guy made a program for reading subtitles using Microsofr TTS engine. He named it "The Creepy Voice"
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There are programs these days which do pretty good "voices", such as "TextAloud" (which has a whole array of different voices available in different accents - British, American, Australian, Indian, etc). It's not the voices which make it "unlistenable" for me, but the completely unnatural "intonation". They either speak the text completely "flat" or, even worse, they put intonation and stress in the wrong places.
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For choral music, there are programs around these days which can do an absolutely astonishingly good job of "synthesising" it. Not just the "oooooh" and "aaaaah" sounds that the early synthesisers had, but ones which will actually sing words.
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Well, this program is rather like an instrument: you can learn to poke some keys and play simple melodies which will sound like crap or you can master it and make it sound very good. Some people just type in the lyrics and use default settings - those usually don't sound too good.
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wow. that's crazy.
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Ahhh. I tried the command manually, and found that the error was: my mac doesn't have the voice Alex that they requested. So I took a text file and ran "say" on it with the default voice. It *is* pretty hard to listen to!! Since the whole thing is too large to upload (and too hard to listen to, anyway) I re-ran the "say" program on just the first 3 paragraphs. I'll include the whole text file, in case you want to know how the short story turns out!
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If I closed my eyes to listen, some parts were hard to follow but I think I could get accustomed, kind of like getting used to a thick accent. Very interesting. It will be fun to see where technology goes with this in the next 5-10 years. Thanks again! |
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