Jay's blog on text-to-speech (Now Defunct)

This is an interesting, if not challenging problem for TTS systems. So, how should you pronounce "1"? Should an English TTS system simply say "one" when it encounters "1"? (Okay, the answer is "no", and here's why:) Let's look at the following English...

El Mundo is one of the more well known newspapers in Spain. And they are now offering an MP3 podcast download of the daily news . It appears that the voice of Rosa is the very same Rosa of AT&T Natural Voices . I found it interesting that the podcast...

Just when you thought you might be able to use your car commute time to sit back and relax, listen to NPR, and creep slowly across the Seattle bridge... TTS is there to readout that document that you didn't have time to read the night before. Magnetictime...

(No, it can't just be me... oh, and it isn't...) Stephen Potter has an extensive list of bloggers across several teams that get a trill out talking Speech. And while I'm the only one focused on TTS (life beyond TTS?), a lot of interest around here is...

Check out Blake's blog here and you can see some of the enthusiasm around text to speech. Blake's site, The Road to Know Where, is loaded with all sorts of tips for Windows users. I'll know where to send my mom the next time she is looking for helpful...