[EAS] Why we need Text-To-Speech

[Alex Hartman]

Harold,

I've "overheard" some companies say that "it's not possible to insert
a user lexicon with our TTS engine". I've been dealing with TTS for
quite a while, it's entirely possible with any implementation,
depending on if you want to do it or not. To me, that's a lie, from
the vendor in question. All TTS engines can do it, it's writing the
front-end to allow such changes, that's all.

Not yours Harold, don't worry. ;)

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Alex Hartman

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Harold Price
<hprice at sagealertingsystems.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you are saying is a lie, I think some words got
> lost in that sentence.  Please clarify.
>
> Harold
>
> At 03:48 PM 3/19/2012, Alex Hartman wrote:
>>How hard is it to write into the rules "TTS engine must be
>>user-programmable for local lexicon insertion up to 100,000 words"?
>>
>>Pretty much tells the manufacturers what they can and cannot use.
>>
>>That's entirely possible. A TTS engine doesn't take much space, and
>>the lexicon file is actually pretty small (under 100Mbytes) for the
>>typical TTS engine.
>>
>>Saying that local lexicon insertion from the manufacturers is a
>>flat-out lie IMO. It's software. Just because they might not want to
>>do it, or it raises their overhead, so be it. Wanna play the game,
>>play by the rules.
>
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