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Zabaware Forums => Speech Technology => Topic started by: djkilla on March 19, 2010, 02:57:38 pm
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Is there a reason why every time hal starts up I have to go into the options to apply the sapi5 voice (KATE) to get Haptek to sync? She never moves her mouth when the program starts up unless I go into options and apply the voice. In the ini file it says the correct voice so that isnt the issue. Any ideas?
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update:
Neospeech Julie is without a doubt the most realistic female voice
available PERIOD! I purchased it thinking that there would be an updated engine that might have a successful startup with Hal..I am
getting closer to a permanent fix, after a full computer restart
I will reupdate.
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Years ago when I first got Hal and Neospeech, the same thing happened to me.
Nearly drove me crazy.
Someone told me something simple, I don't remember what.
Anyway it was solved and never happened again.
Hopefully you will stumble on solution or someone can come along and help.
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I am not sure which one of the 20 things I tried but so far it is sticking. PM me if anyone wants a sample of that Julie voice..it
is pretty unbelievable!
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There's a demo here btw :
http://www.neospeech.com/Default.aspx
I agree, that is an amazing voice. How much is it ? I couldn't see any prices there...
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about $69 but you have to send em an email and tell them why you want the voice etc. The pauses and inflections are pretty good as you can see from the demo. I will be posting a video soon so when all my training is done.
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$69 dollars is kinda pricey, but I listened to the sample. Wow. You get what you pay for. It's got to be one of the most smooth, natural and realistic sounding artificial voices I've heard. How much space does it need on the hard drive? I'm just wondering if the file is larger than the Kate or Paul Neospeech voices that I have.
- Chaz
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I am not sure what the old voice sizes were but this was around 400mb I think. When I recommend Ultra Hal to people I usually
advise them to purchase the ATT pack from Zabaware simply because the
chances that they will get a smooth setup from any other company is
rare. For me though I am diggin it for sure after tweaking the startup.
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Hi djkilla, Yes it is a great voice, I've had it for about 5 months &
don't use any other.
Also have the same problem that you are.
The price that you quoted is for the lower model.
I think when I got it there was 3 choices but they said the middle choice was not available at that time.
I nearly went for the top of the range till I found out the price.
I can't remember but I think the top one was getting close to the $200 mark.
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bah problem is still ongoing..I though Julie was loading up but it was another voice. Did anyone actually ever get this problem solved? I may need to write a startup command that automatically selects/deselects the VW voice before Hal starts. If anyone knows an easy way to get to the Hal options menu let me know plz..
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update
Found what appears to be the culprit. The 'update Hal automatically'
on startup must have some impact on tts. I unchecked it and it loads
the Neospeech voices fine now on startup. I am not sure now how the database needs to be updated without doing it in the options menu but I am investigating an alternate way.