Hello,
I have just received my voice back from the people at Modeltalker and have
attached a couple of example wav files. The 2 files with orig_ prefix are
original recordings that I have done and hotel.wav and canoe.wav have been
produced using Modeltalker. To build the voice takes ~1600 phrases to be
recorded. They did warn me that it wouldn't be the same quality that they could
produce for American English speakers. The tool that it uses to do the
recordings limits what it will take as input to minimise the variation in terms
of pitch, loudness and pronunciation, but as a British English speaker I had to
turn off the pronunciation module.
As I say, I have just had this back today so haven't done a full investigation
of what it will produce but I thought you might be interested in hearing the
output.
All the best,
Sarah
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Sarah Creer
phd student
Clinical Applications of Speech Technology
Departments of Computer Science and Human Communication Sciences
University of Sheffield
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Quoting "Phillips Tracy (RBF) NOC" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi Liz,
>
> One of my clients has recently been asking the same questions.
> Have you looked at the following sites to create synthesized speech?
>
> http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/clinicians.html
> http://www.modeltalker.com/
>
> We haven't tried it, but would be interested to hear from anyone who has.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tracy
>
> Tracy Phillips
> Speech and Language Therapist in AAC
> Specialist Disability Service
> Oxford Centre for Enablement
> Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
> Windmill Road
> Headington
> Oxford
> OX3 7LD
>
> Tel: 01865 737445
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A discussion list for Assistive Technology professionals.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Liz Scott-Tatum
> Sent: 07 July 2008 15:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Voice sampling enquiry
>
> We have recently beed approached by a person with a degenerative condition
> who wants to do some voice banking, before their speech deteriorates
> further. We would really appreciate any advice the group can offer
> regarding how we could go about this, any specific software which can be
> used, what quality the sounds are, and how easy it is to use the samples
> on different voice output communcaition aids. Finally is it possible to
> take sufficient voice samples to create their own synthesised voice - if
> so what would be needed to achieve this?
>
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