[EAS] No such thing as too much compression

[Tom Spencer]

For a de-minimus Text-To-Speech demo, give a listen to my on-line 
presence near the bottom of any hour:  Weather conditions are 
text-to-speech using SAPI5 conversion engine.  The voice is one of the 
available free ones (Microsoft Mary, to be exact); frankly, I've yet to 
hear a better one - including "Perfect Paul" from NOAA. I have heard  
*/worse/* voice packages, though. 

96 kbps mp3:  http://24.223.134.226:8080/stream.mp3.m3u

Quality 0 ogg: http://24.223.134.226:8008/stream2.ogg.m3u

David Turnmire wrote:
> ...
> I can understand how the text to speech process cleans up the normal 
> audio quality issues (compression, noise, etc, etc)... but how well does 
> it work in practice for intelligibility... especially with odd words... 
> place names, people's names, etc?  

-- 
Tom Spencer