Speech synthesizers

Me too, I signed a petition I mean.

does eloquence now belong to ibm?

not to ibm, but to ibmtts

I don't think so.

IBM TTS stands for International Business Machines Text To Speech.

Oh wow! I just looked and we're 1,503 now! That's cool! Jake said he wanted to contact microsoft when we've reached 1,000.

Excellent news!

Right, but there is an IBM TTS thing similar to Eloquence.

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I don't think so.

IBM TTS stands for International Business Machines Text To Speech.

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Yep, IBM via voice. I think this is what it was for initially, but Eloquence uses almost the same things.

That I don't know, but I doubt Microsoft will agree. Also, I wonder where Code Factory stands regarding this matter. You know, they also have their own NVDA add-on and SAPI 5 version with additional languages, meaning that they have also modified the synthesizer in some way and this must have been with some sort of license.
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does eloquence now belong to ibm?

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Right, VıaVoice. Whatever.
-- (hozosch):
Yep, IBM via voice. I think this is what it was for initially, but Eloquence uses almost the same things.

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Oh, where can I find syntalk?
When i tried to google it I didn't find anything.
Is it still possible to find it?
As far as I understand this synth is really old, from 2010 or so.
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@daszekmdn: I know syntalk, too, and I actually like it, with kasia being my favourite voice. And one thing that
I find quite neat is, that it kind of can speak german,, but, of course, with a polish accent and it doesn't
always get things right.


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try grossgang.com. Look in the folder TTS and then Sapi Voices.

Well, I found a syntalk, but it had only 2 voices, plus while changing speech rate the pitch was also changing lol.
The voice was called syntalk neutral synths.

Unfortunately, syntalk 1.6 is underdeveloped.

Oh.
Then I will try to use eSpeak and it's Polish, I thought that syntalk could be an alternative for me.
As I could already understand with Spanish, eSpeak is not a good choice of speech synth when you are a beginner in a new language.
I use acapela ania for voiceDream on iPhone and android, I think I will purchase acapela for nvda some day.

Well, I can tell you that I have Acapela, for NVDA, and as the voice of ela Likes to say, it's "Fabulous". There is actually a link that acapela put that literally shows you all the expressions, exclamations, and even the sounds. I gotta tell you Acapela have outdone themselves. I just wish they would put the missing new voices like will far away and will bad guy. And there is also some new child voices in french, german, and I believe sweetish. Don't Quote me on the sweetish part, but the french and german child voices are for sure there.

Oh!
By the way these sounds never worked for me in nvda.
I don't know what was wrong, but it never worked.
I tried it when the demo was available.

I actually have a post myself that you can look at that explaines exactly how to do it. So do look at it.

Can you please give a link to it?
I mean a link to your post.

Or do you refer to the post that's in the acapela for nvda website?