Greetings all,
I watched the scenario (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewCRJZKFW34) Jitterjames put on YouTube (twice? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHOpmKnc4o)), and I loved the usage of functions and peripherals. I noticed he uses Neospeech's Bridget voice. I myself use Ivona's Brian (Male UK) voice, and after seeing the video I was wondering what everyone else uses.
My dream TTS would be GLaDOS from Portal, but after scouring the internet this is the closest thing I could find: http://glados.biringa.com ... and some tutorials on how to make some .wavs yourself.
So what do you use?
Quote from: Thordurin on June 09, 2013, 02:41:39 AM
Greetings all,
I watched the scenario (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewCRJZKFW34) Jitterjames put on YouTube (twice? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHOpmKnc4o)), and I loved the usage of functions and peripherals. I noticed he uses Neospeech's Bridget voice. I myself use Ivona's Brian (Male UK) voice, and after seeing the video I was wondering what everyone else uses.
My dream TTS would be GLaDOS from Portal, but after scouring the internet this is the closest thing I could find: http://glados.biringa.com ... and some tutorials on how to make some .wavs yourself.
So what do you use?
Hi, I use NeoSpeech's Kate(US), Bridget(UK) and Paul(US) for english and AT&T Reiner(DE) for german in Windows. I use on my android device the SVOX TTS voices, these are really good.
Hi Kalle.
Do you rotate between the voices, or are they integrated for specific tasks?
Quote from: Thordurin on June 09, 2013, 02:41:39 AM
Greetings all,
I watched the scenario (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewCRJZKFW34) Jitterjames put on YouTube (twice? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHOpmKnc4o)), and I loved the usage of functions and peripherals.
Minor thread hijack to explain the seeming YouTube post redundancy. James's first upload was 'sabotaged' after the fact because he accidentally played copyrighted music too loudly in the background. This caused Google to block it from playing on mobile devices, among other things, so James made some adjustments to the audio track and re-uploaded it in the hopes that users would be able to view that version on mobile devices. But since so many people had already viewed, reposted, and responded to the first video, I guess he decided to keep it posted too.
Ah, thanks for the info nime5ter! ;D
I showed my wife the video, and she was more interested in Markos than the Vox stuff. :bonk
Quote from: Thordurin on June 09, 2013, 04:49:36 AM
Hi Kalle.
Do you rotate between the voices, or are they integrated for specific tasks?
no, not really rotate - for the english instance of VC on my HTPC I use NeoSpeech "Paul" and for the german instance I use AT&T "Reiner". On my Desktop I use mostly NeoSpeech "Kate", but it is possible to rotate the voice for each TTS output.
GladOS would be awesome (did anyone notice my cake annotation at a the end?), but I think gladOS was played by a human actor which is why she was so expressive. I would be equally thrilled if I could have Stephen Merchant's voice!
Quote from: jitterjames on June 09, 2013, 09:32:02 AM
GladOS would be awesome (did anyone notice my cake annotation at a the end?), but I think gladOS was played by a human actor which is why she was so expressive. I would be equally thrilled if I could have Stephen Merchant's voice!
+1. Stephen Merchant's voice would be awesome. I bet somewhere there's a car GPS system (sat nav) that uses his voice.
Quote from: Thordurin on June 09, 2013, 05:28:23 AM
Ah, thanks for the info nime5ter! ;D
I showed my wife the video, and she was more interested in Markos than the Vox stuff. :bonk
Thordurin, if your wife needs more of a Markos fix, you can let her know there's plenty more where that came from on the jitterjames Youtube channel. ::)
Seriously, though, even if she doesn't agree with me that VC is the most convenient way to manage music playlists while putzing around the house (i.e., I don't have to keep going to the screen/keyboard to change what I'm listening to, or find out artist info, etc. while cooking or working in my office or whatnot), I think my favourite commands are actually the OurGroceries ones. We use those daily to coordinate the grocery list. If you don't have an OurGroceries account yet but you both share the grocery shopping, I do recommend it.
James keeps telling me that VC has a low WAF. I say you guys are just *trying* to keep VC
man-tained. :biglaugh
Quote from: nime5ter on June 09, 2013, 06:10:13 PM
Thordurin, if your wife needs more of a Markos fix, you can let her know there's plenty more where that came from on the jitterjames Youtube channel. ::)
Seriously, though, even if she doesn't agree with me that VC is the most convenient way to manage music playlists while putzing around the house (i.e., I don't have to keep going to the screen/keyboard to change what I'm listening to, or find out artist info, etc. while cooking or working in my office or whatnot), I think my favourite commands are actually the OurGroceries ones. We use those daily to coordinate the grocery list. If you don't have an OurGroceries account yet but you both share the grocery shopping, I do recommend it.
James keeps telling me that VC has a low WAF. I say you guys are just *trying* to keep VC man-tained. :biglaugh
I hope you can someday convince Karola to use the shopping list ::)
I (and about 6 billion other people) would love JARVIS from Iron Man but it's impossible for the same reason we can't have GLADOS.
I spent a very long time scouring the web for the best voices. IVONA's Brian is the best I found (IMHO). I was using Kate before that, she was the best female voice I'd found by miles.
I switched to a male voice just for a change of scene, that's when the PC was renamed from Chloe to Alexander.
-P
Quote from: Thordurin on June 09, 2013, 05:28:23 AM
I showed my wife the video, and she was more interested in Markos than the Vox stuff. :bonk
https://plus.google.com/photos/111676462313545255894/albums/5126012820712934129
Where does everyone go to get these voices are their any free ones I can use ?
AFAIK there are no good free voices for windows. There are some good free beta voices for android and some good cheap ones too.
Not free, but I recommend IVONA. Brian is the one I use.
I think Jane was the one I used to use before my PC had a sex change.
Both really good. They have the occasional oddity, such as when he was trying to say NBA he was saying NB"uh" until I changed the text to something like "NB-eh". There are a few others. I think getting him to say deluminate was a challenge. If I remember rightly I had to type the text as "DEE-lumun-8".
Aside from that though he is a lot more natural than any other voice I've heard.
-P
Just realised I pretty much wrote the same thing a couple of weeks ago! I'm half asleep!
And it would seem it was "Kate" not Jane.
-P
looks like brian and the ivona software is $109.00 thats kinda of expensive. Now i do see that the ivona software is only $39.99 but i would still have to buy a voice. well it gives me somthing to look forward to thanks mr wolf.
i recently had contact with a sales representative from neospeech about voices. they sent me a few to test. right now i'm using julie, and i have to say she's awesome. any idea what number i can look forward to pay for one of their licenses? because... i really.. REALLY like it =)
ninja edit: of course i will basically know exactly what it costs in like.. 2 weeks when the test license expires, but since some ppl already baught their license, maybe i could get a hint.
I think 60 EUR and up for a license :'(
ah well... looking back at anna.... i just don't want to go back
*adding that to the list*
thanks for the info Kalle
If you have windows 8.1 pro, there is a good german TTS voice included :)
It is really a shame that they still charge so much per voice for TTS on desktop systems. They are practically *giving them away* for mobile devices, but I guess with a desktop they think you might be using it commercially. Anyway it sucks, because it is really nice to have a decent TTS voice, but the current prices are really not fair, IMO.
It would be nice if one could get a "TTS-Light" version that only allowed a certain number of words / day or something along those lines.
Yes that is true >:D
You can get a fantastic tts voice for a android system for only 5 bugsbucks, but for windows it is a shame ::yikes
I wish I could pay for things with bugs. I would be rich!
I think you mean bucks.
You'll master English, one word at a time... ;)
(http://www.arielbravy.com/photoblog/images/20051019194725_bucks%20fighting.jpg)
I use both Brian and Kate and setup a command to switch between them and a few other voices I have.
Me: May please speak with ...Jarvis
VC: Sure just a moment while I get him.
Invoke SelectTTS voice by number (or you can use by name) to select Brian
VC: Hello, this is. Jarvis, how may I help you?
When I get tired of talking to one I just ask to speak to another. Works great and gives a little variety. My computer has multiple personalities. ;)
This is also useful if you need to switch between languages. Please note that you should try to always use voice names when doing this instead of numbers because the numbers can change. If you add or remove voices, or even if you change the default windows TTS voice, then the index number for each voice may be modified and you would need to update your commands.
Quote from: jitterjames on June 11, 2013, 05:11:16 PM
https://plus.google.com/photos/111676462313545255894/albums/5126012820712934129
LOL. I could not imagine Markos being spoiled. Pretty dog James and Naomi.
I am using Bridget as well (hmmm... that sounds rude). I followed a link here on the forum to a reseller and paid US$19.99. Considering what we pay for VoxCommando, it did seem a little steeep for just a voice. But I heard it in Jitterjames' utube video and was so impressed with how natural it sounded that I had to have her (uh...).
While it wouldn't be very practical as an all-around voice, the original 1980s Battlestar Galactica Cylon voice answering "By Your Command" to a "Start Listening" command would be pretty interesting... Especially if you had an unsuspecting guest over.
Quote from: Dave.ca on April 15, 2014, 07:43:45 AM
I am using Bridget as well (hmmm... that sounds rude). I followed a link here on the forum to a reseller and paid US$19.99. Considering what we pay for VoxCommando, it did seem a little steeep for just a voice. But I heard it in Jitterjames' utube video and was so impressed with how natural it sounded that I had to have her (uh...).
While it wouldn't be very practical as an all-around voice, the original 1980s Battlestar Galactica Cylon voice answering "By Your Command" to a "Start Listening" command would be pretty interesting... Especially if you had an unsuspecting guest over.
Check this post out in Tips and Tricks for a cylon automation example.
http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=997.msg8335#msg8335
if you are interested in the "by your command wav" let me know, I have one that has been digitally remastered.