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

Egads, it's quite clear that Shakespeare wasn't meant to be read with a text to speech voice... or at least not with the Micorosoft Mary and Microsoft Mike which are representative of older MS technology (old in terms of what users will get with Vista...

I recently went over the entry in Wikipedia on text-to-speech , and it turns out to be a really good overview of the technolgogy. If you are interested in its history and the various components that would have to be handled by any TTS system, I highly...