S60 Open to new features

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

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

Hi,

I agree with Luca: the italian version of the text to speech it seems better than the english one! Impressive!!
Ciao
Rosario

hi, sounds nice i think, do you also have an norwegian version?

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?

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 :-)

BTW, did you note that all 3rd Edition phones have already one TTS feature: "say caller's name". Mixes phonebook entry with the ringing tone. It's also localised, and for example Finnish speaking sounds quite natural.

I'm sorry, I can't comment about the language support yet (Norwegean version, Turkish version, ...). I wish we had a more clear policy about what I can disclose about future Nokia devices and what not.

Eldar, I don't have samples of other voice packs, but I'll share them with you if I get some.

Jukka, this is exactly the "limited use" of TTS that I talked about. In theory, you could make all S60 3rd edition devices speak more, but without High-Quality Text-to-Speech it sounds quite robotic.

Thanks Jukka
I find out some whitepapers about TTS and also receive language packs for other languages. Just playing with it now. Thanks

Support Chinese Language?

Smile, I'm sorry but I can't share info about the supported languages yet...

How can this text-to-speech feature be adapted for users who have limited reading ability? For example, illiterate or blind mobile phone users.

Mark: in Nokia 5500, the benefits for people with limited reading ability are still limited. The phone reads you aloud the text messages, but not much more than that.

In any case, I wouldn't recommend Nokia 5500 for people with poor eyesight. The fonts are quite small, because of small device/screen size.

No reading in Finnish yet?

Don't know, sorry. Ask Olli or other guys from his team in Tampere...

i have the 5500 sport but the text to speech does not work. it says 'no languages available' when i go to the language settings. why is this. pls help. pls email me.