Speaking of TTS…Speegle web searches

Here's a company that does Google-like web searches and plays back the results using a text to speech system.  One of the cool things is that you don't need a TTS engine in your OS -- it synthesizes and then outputs using a Macromedia Flash control.
 
 
The other cool thing is that cute British accent.  Sounds so much more sophisticated.
 
 
Published 11 November 04 11:11 by sprague

Comments

# George said on November 11, 2004 6:19 PM:
and it sounds like Sean Connery but isn't TTS just as good?
# Nalakumar said on November 11, 2004 10:13 PM:
Good and intresting to see the new technology picking up.
# JD on MX said on November 12, 2004 3:08 PM:
Speegle: Search engine is under high load today... should have more servers tomorrow. It does serverside text-to-SWFaudio conversion before pumping the results down to your browser. The URL to the SWF implies that it keeps a unique session going on...
# Robert M. Hall said on November 12, 2004 1:23 PM:
Been doing this on my blog for several years now - server side text to speech to .swf - click the Speak icon under each entry on my site to listen...

http://www.impossibilities.com/blog/

I'm also including the links in my rss feed for podcasting too:

http://www.impossibilities.com/blog/rss.xml

Mine currently does not have quite as good a sounding speech engine - but mine is made of all open source frameworks and can support dropping other engines like ATT natural voices and others like microsofts... :)
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