Interesting, you can definitely note (I think?!) the 'americanisation' of
the voice in the parts where it is doing the concatenation... So I assume
this would be a _lot_ better with a UK model? Have they any plans to
produce a UK model Sarah?
Simon
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Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Voice sampling enquiry
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-----
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> [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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