Text-to-Speech audio clips from Nokia 5500 Sport
Exclusivity alert!
I just received a few audio samples from the project manager of our High-Quality Text-to-Speech stuff.
Cranck up your speakers, click the links below, and listen! (the links point to the attached .wav sound files)
In English:
"Your speed is 10 kilometers per hour."
"You are doing well. Keep up the pace."
In Italian:
(some Italian phrase #1)
(some Italian phrase #2)
Unfortunately, I cant speak Italian... Could you Marco and other Italian readers tell me how does it sound? And what does it say? Hopefully not any obscenities... ;-)
I think our Text-to-Speech quality is already now quite impressive. Traditionally, text-to-speech in mobile devices has sounded very robotish and it's usage has been limited to very short phrases. Now, the technology we have put into Nokia 5500 Sport provides an almost human-like speech quality, and it is basically able to read any texts with this quality.
How do you like the quality yourself?
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ps. many thanks for your comments to my last post about Text-to-Speech. I think these are really valid points. Let's see what we can do.
Comments
Hi,
the quality is indeed very impressive.
I really hope you open the TTS engine for 3rd party developers, this would be lots of fun.
BTW, keep up the great blog work you are doing, with the blogs, S60 makes even more fun then before
Regards
Max
Posted by: Max | May 12, 2006 01:19 PM
Regarding the Italian phrases:
1. Benvenuti sul nuovo forum più efficiente e funzionale (trad.: Welcome to the new more efficient and functional forum)
2. Il mio numero di telefono è il seguente 06495727 (trad.: My telephone number is the following 06495727).
I have to say that the quality of the speech is really good. The italian version seems even more human-like uttered than the english one, which in some phonemes sounds too robotic (I don't know if it has to deal with audio format compression).
Ciao,
Luca
Posted by: Luca | May 12, 2006 01:28 PM
Hi,
I agree with Luca: the italian version of the text to speech it seems better than the english one! Impressive!!
Ciao
Rosario
Posted by: rosario | May 12, 2006 02:38 PM
hi, sounds nice i think, do you also have an norwegian version?
Posted by: ivar | May 12, 2006 05:22 PM
May be I will be no so enthusiastic, let's say a little bit sceptic :)
Other solution is comparable in terms of voice or quality with TTS from Nokia.
But Nokia solution have a big advantage which arent mention here:
- downloadable voices for different languages and also different persons. As far as I know it will be SDK for create sound/voice profiles. This is really cool. Think people will like it and we will have a lot of voices for Nokia smartphones in near future.
- Integration with all standard software of S60v3-1 in near future, mostly will be used for GPS-navigation. Totally new expirience for end users.
P.S. Do you have any other samples of voice packs? Other than Ellen? If yes, could you share it with me?
Posted by: Eldar Murtazin | May 12, 2006 07:14 PM
English version sounds more robotic than I expected but sounds pretty good.
I'd really love to hear a Turkish version too, if there's going to be any :-)
Posted by: Burak Bayburtlu | May 13, 2006 12:08 PM