In this script, I found thousands upon thousands of single words - and just as many pages of random, and often non-sensical sentences (“During the period, the company continued to benefit from favorable tax effects”, or “But oh what a hit it could be”, as examples). Due to the prevalence of my voice not only on the Asterisk Open Source PBX but with many other telephony platforms, they saw the advantages in recording volumes more “sounds” than usually required to build a typical TTS system, so as to create as seamless as possible an interface which would dovetail well with pre-installed stock prompts and custom-recorded prompts alike - all voiced by me. As a way of achieving that, a script arrived which had the breadth (and thickness) of a typical major-city white pages telephone book. The storage of entire words and even sentences allows for high-quality output, but is laborious and time-intensive to record.Ĭepstral’s goal, when they proposed the idea of working together, was to build a very robust TTS engine - possibly the most robust they’d ever designed. Phonemes and graphemes are simply broken-down sound “fragments” which the system recognizes, and assigns those sounds to what it recognizes the typed word to which it should correspond. Text to Speech products immeasurably enhance the lives those unable to speak, and it’s imperative that the user and voice connect on a visceral level.Ī Text to Speech system converts normal language text into speech, by concatenating pieces of recorded speech which are stored in a database.
His early, rudimentary “voice” works well it is recognizable, and most signficantly, it has practically become a part of who he is. At least we’re not capturing the event on a jumbotron.Ī Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis is basically the artificial production of human speech - most people’s first thought will gravitate immediately to Stephen Hawking, whose Text to Speech voice has become a part of his persona legend has it that Cepstral - who designed his initial TTS utility has offered him numerous “upgrades” and more current and evolved versions throughout the years for him to experiment with. They did a presentation at Astricon one year, and while discussing their range of voices available, a slide appeared on the screen which read: “Coming soon: The Allison Voice!” I was thrilled a couple of years ago when I was approached by Cepstral - one of the premiere architects of high quality, natural sounding voice synthesis products - to be one of their text-to speech voices….and I was even thrilled by their very public “proposal”.
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