[EAS] What is the solution for the TTS problem?

[Alex Hartman]

Cepstral is as close to a perfect paul as you can get. It's cheap, and
it even knows how to properly pronounce Eau Claire amazingly.

There are several TTS engines out there in the market, PerfectPaul was
of course commissioned by NOAA, but also not available to purchase.

Most of the TTS engines on the market today are pretty good, probably
around 90-95% accurate. It's not my fault Monticello is pronounced
"Monty-Sell-O" here, and "Monty-CHELL-o" somewhere else.

With many of them though, you can update the lexicon by hand for
certain stuff, but that would absolutely be left up to the end user
which is where the problems come in.

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Alex Hartman

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Barry Mishkind <barrym at oldradio.com> wrote:
> At 11:22 AM 1/19/2012, Tom Taggart wrote:
>>The big boxes (Sage, Dasdec, Tri-lithic) are all computers.
>>I am assuming if heads were beat together to use a
>>standardized text-to-voice program it could be made to work
>>on all three & just downloaded at a later date.
>
>        Well, that was my unstated concept.
>        Are we afraid of some idiotic conspiracy,
>        or collusion?  Or can we accept that
>        Perfect Paul (or some other file) be
>        made the "standard?"
>
>        Does the government own PP, or
>        would that create (oh my, lawyers
>        salivate) royalty issues?
>
>        Maybe the EAS manufacturers could
>        combine efforts in an "open software"
>        effort to make a standard?
>
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