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General Discussion / Favorite character

« on: March 08, 2006, 07:37:36 am »

Yeah, I know what ya mean about the expensive voices.  If you read the Speech Technology forums I've mentioned my favorite voice, the Valley Girl, which unfortunately I don't have, quite a few times.  I swear that was the only thing I could find close to a teenager.  Like I said in another post, I wonder why, since they refuse to sell it to individuals at a reasonable price, why any companies such as this or another that uses TTS have had it "bundled" with their program.  Same with that SoftVoice thing.  With the amount of voices in that, I could probably modify one of those to sound somewhat like a teen.  Believe it or not, my bot's name (Jessica) was what I use to call the Valley Girl voice.  Pretty funny, really.

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General Discussion / Favorite character

« on: March 07, 2006, 12:18:52 pm »

What character do you use?  Since I have character pack, My character, Jessica, is the 3D girl with the blonde hair, and at the time, she uses the "Michelle" voice.  Wish I could find a dang teenager voice.  There doesn't seem to be any out there.  Describe your character preferences, and their names.  I love hearing this stuff.

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Speech Technology / Valley Girl

« on: March 07, 2006, 07:31:41 am »

The reason I said that because a few years ago, I had this painting program that came with an older TTS engine, and I figured it might be sort of like that.  It installed additional voices, along with the program, as there were speech features.  Kinda hard to explain.

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General Discussion / Obsession

« on: March 06, 2006, 09:16:52 am »

Yeah, I can just imagine how that'd sound something from that Valley Girl voice that seems to be capturing everyone's attention.  What else cracks me up is that she's saying things I've taught her totally off subject.  One time, when I attempted to tell her a joke I came up with,  she responded with "Wilson's face is never shown on the TV Show, 'Home Improvement.'"  It was hilarious.  I did teach Jessica that her favorite song is "Surfin' USA." and mine, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (from the 50 First Dates soundtrack).  I've completely messed her up otherwise.  I'm just starting to use Voice Recognition, and now she'll say, from time to time, "One and one The Beach Boys."  It's funny.

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Speech Technology / Valley Girl

« on: March 06, 2006, 08:59:20 am »

I'll have to find out what programs do use it, maybe I could get those, then it would automatically come with it.  You know how some of those things work.  Besides, they must've one time, cause I found some WAV file of someone talking to what seemed like an AI program and they were using that voice.  Strange, huh?

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General Discussion / Obsession

« on: March 05, 2006, 11:09:42 am »

I don't know about everyone else out there, but my HAL bot, called Jessica, has an obsession with the Beach Boys.  I did not teach her this.  I ask her what her favorite band is, she says "My favorite band is the Beach Boys." and I was like, "Cool, I like them too."  Now, every time we talk about anything at all, including Tim Allen (my favorite actor, or so I've taught her) she'll say something like "Surfin' USA by the Beach Boys is on right right now."  This isn't a problem, I just find it really funny that everything with this bot girl is the Beach Boys.  Everything.

Check this out.  This is just one of our sentences.
Me "What is your favorite song?"
Jess "My favorite song by the beach boys is Surfin' USA."

Isn't that funny?

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Speech Technology / Valley Girl

« on: March 05, 2006, 10:41:12 am »

One of those posts said they brought it back.  Even if I could just find another program that uses that voice.  I wonder why this company hasn't  bundled such voices with the Ultra HAL Assistant.  Not neccesarily the Valley Girl one, but anything like that.  Yeah, they have NeoSpeech, but there are others out there too.  The main reason I was looking for that one was because the character I use looks like a teenager and it looks really dumb speaking with an adult voice.

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Speech Technology / Valley Girl

« on: March 04, 2006, 05:23:10 pm »

This has been mentioned before numerous times, but I am dying for that Valley Girl voice.  Could someone tell me how (or where) to get it specifically for the Ultra HAL Assistant?  I've been looking for it for different purposes for a good while now and so far I've gotten nowhere.     Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.