Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Although not perfect, the 1.0 version is much much better than the versions 0.x - I would strongly


That's one of the things it would have had to say if HAL 2001: A Space Odyssey is a Welsh film. Although we in 2006, it's computers still can not reason, let alone speak the same HAL. To make computer talk is one of the most difficult to develop technologies and for the promises over the years, there's still no software that enables a computer to voice any text in any language perfectly.
The development of such a system for Welsh with limited resources have been in place long, tireless. neon I remember Dr Briony Williams presents Welsh voice synthesizer in 1995, and was in the wake of years of research.
Now the Voice Technology Unit at Canolfan Bedwyr has introduced a package of text-to-speech for Welsh. Version 1.0 is available here but the zip file to be not working at the moment. Version 0.5 is also available but there are errors in it and it uses the old voice samples. As an example of the voice, this Welsh speaking clock.
Although not perfect, the 1.0 version is much much better than the versions 0.x - I would strongly recommend to anyone who uses 0.x de-setting within the Control Panel, and then loaded version 1.0 down. Three voice within the package, including a version of the voice 1995 (this was Southern voice), and two brand new Northern voice. We are well aware that there are clicking and popping affect the output of new voices. neon This is not a reflection of the quality of the original recording - that problem has been assigned and is being solved at the moment. Version 1.1 will be even better
The voice quality is very high clock (and the whole is built of two dozen sentences only), but to better identify other is not the quality of the voices Windows - generally, within the technology we are used at present, the quality of speech synthesis arises when the vocabulary is reduced.
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