Jay's blog on text-to-speech (Now Defunct)
What's up with text-to-speech (TTS) and Microsoft? Heck, what's up with TTS in general these days? Speech, language, and technology. Cool stuff, indeed.
I'm no longer blogging on text to speech; however, there are still a lot of great people blogging on...
Date: 10/02/2006
It was only a matter of time.... AgoraNet, Inc. appears to be in the process of introducing the...
Date: 07/11/2006
What's the Blizzard Challenge? In a shell's nut, it's a competition that provides researchers and...
Date: 06/30/2006
If you are running Vista Beta 2, check out the new text to speech functionality using the Narrator...
Date: 06/09/2006
Besides being the best of the three MI movies, there were 2 instances of TTS in the movie that...
Date: 05/12/2006
Recently I was talking to a colleague who is a native French speaker (hey, that's the great benefit...
Date: 03/23/2006
Egads, it's quite clear that Shakespeare wasn't meant to be read with a text to speech voice... or...
Date: 02/14/2006
I recently went over the entry in Wikipedia on text-to-speech, and it turns out to be a really good...
Date: 02/07/2006
Check out Blake's blog here and you can see some of the enthusiasm around text to speech. Blake's...
Date: 01/30/2006
El Mundo is one of the more well known newspapers in Spain. And they are now offering an MP3 podcast...
Date: 01/26/2006
(No, it can't just be me... oh, and it isn't...) Stephen Potter has an extensive list of bloggers...
Date: 01/19/2006
This is an interesting, if not challenging problem for TTS systems. So, how should you pronounce...
Date: 01/17/2006
Just when you thought you might be able to use your car commute time to sit back and relax, listen...
Date: 01/04/2006
I recently found an article describing the Deskbot which is one of the cooler text to speech reader...
Date: 12/29/2005
There was an ariticle on web that describes a company with a TTS voice for Hindi. And for all you...
Date: 12/13/2005
Truly! Find out how you too can use TTS when watching the Macy's Day Parade to reflect falling...
Date: 12/06/2005
When you look back at what Windows was in 1990 and you look at what Vista is slated to be next year,...
Date: 11/22/2005
Just when you think you are settling into a job, they encourage you to take a month off. Sorry to...
Date: 11/04/2005
Microsoft has a page buried on its website that details a few third party speech component...
Date: 09/27/2005
Egads! Check out this video which predicts the future of computing... in particular, the TTS is......
Date: 09/27/2005
Here is a brief article on some step by step instructions on the code I recently posted with help...
Date: 08/31/2005
The purpose of this brief article is to demonstrate, step by step with screenshots, how you can use...
Date: 08/31/2005
I realize I'm a little new around here, but I am continually impressed with the caliber of...
Date: 08/26/2005
While browsing the U-Village this weeked with my wife and babe, I begged by wife to let me have a...
Date: 08/08/2005
MyNewsToGo is a nice looking RSS newsreader that will also convert your feeds to an MP3. Sounds like...
Date: 08/08/2005
Here is a great site on a lot of issues related to language and linguistics.
Date: 08/01/2005
Matt Harrington has provided a great article on writing some code to enable speech. It even comes...
Date: 08/01/2005
Thanks to Jen Anderson on posting this wiki on speech.
Date: 07/27/2005
Looks like HP is on the move to do some TTS of local languages using the Festival kit (thanks to...
Date: 07/22/2005
Interesting press release from Nuance stating that their partners are now able to create their own...
Date: 07/18/2005
Here's a cool looking text to speech app that's just been released. What's cool about it? Well, it...
Date: 07/06/2005
How would you like 24 FREE text-to-speech voices as soon as you can download them? But wait... there's a catch!!
NextUp software offers some apps that allow you to read different kinds of documents and text...
Date: 06/29/2005
Okay, so the military really wants speech to speech capabilities... just think of the possibilities...
Date: 06/21/2005
Scientific American recently posted an article overview of text-to-speech. I know that other...
Date: 06/17/2005
Thanks to Jen Anderson for pointing out that the yahoo speech groups are now migrating off of Yahoo...
Date: 06/14/2005
Do you dabble with Sony's Play Station Portable (PSP)? Even the PSP thinks that text-to-speech is...
Date: 06/13/2005
Here's an interesting article on the importance of text-to-speech for use in ATMs to benefit the...
Date: 06/09/2005
There are a whole bunch of text-to-speech programs out there for your PC, and one that I recently...
Date: 06/09/2005
How does one do accuracy testing of different text to speech voices? That’s a real interesting...
Date: 06/07/2005
So how does one go about comparing the range of text-to-speech voices available? TMA Associates has...
Date: 06/05/2005