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Speech Technology / Emotional voice from Loquendo
« on: June 02, 2005, 01:48:17 pm »
Hi, Folks,
I've said this somewhere else on the forum: I've tried a lot of voices, including Heather, but the best female voice, in my opinion, is AT&T's Lauren. You can get her from NextUp.com for $35. It's one of their voice fonts, which means you have to purchase the speech engine first (it comes with Crystal and Mike) before you can install Lauren. So I guess you're really paying $70, but you'll end up with 2 high-quality female voices, Crystal and Lauren. Lauren's far superior to Neospeech Kate, and she even has a wider range of inflections, in my view, than Heather, although Heather's very good, too.
Jennifer, from ScanSoft, is also good. L&H developed her several years ago for their speech recognition products. However, you could still use her in other applications. But when ScanSoft bought up L&H and started offering Jennifer with Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred (their speech recognition product)they made her program-specific; you can't use her in other applications, including Hal.
I've said this somewhere else on the forum: I've tried a lot of voices, including Heather, but the best female voice, in my opinion, is AT&T's Lauren. You can get her from NextUp.com for $35. It's one of their voice fonts, which means you have to purchase the speech engine first (it comes with Crystal and Mike) before you can install Lauren. So I guess you're really paying $70, but you'll end up with 2 high-quality female voices, Crystal and Lauren. Lauren's far superior to Neospeech Kate, and she even has a wider range of inflections, in my view, than Heather, although Heather's very good, too.
Jennifer, from ScanSoft, is also good. L&H developed her several years ago for their speech recognition products. However, you could still use her in other applications. But when ScanSoft bought up L&H and started offering Jennifer with Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred (their speech recognition product)they made her program-specific; you can't use her in other applications, including Hal.