e-Article
A system for creating personalized synthetic voices
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility. :196-197
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
We will be demonstrating the ModelTalker Voice Creation System, which allows users to create a personalized synthetic voice with an unrestricted vocabulary. The system includes a tool for recording a speech inventory and a program that converts the recorded inventory into a synthetic voice for the ModelTalker TTS engine. The entire system can be downloaded for use on a home PC or in a clinical setting, and the resulting synthetic voices can be used with any SAPI compliant system.We will demonstrate the recording process, and convert the recordings to a mini-database with a limited vocabulary for participants to hear.