Jay's blog on text-to-speech (Now Defunct)

What's up with text-to-speech (TTS) and Microsoft? Heck, what's up with TTS in general these days? Speech, language, and technology. Cool stuff, indeed.

Moving away from Text to Speech... but other great folks are still here

I'm no longer blogging on text to speech; however, there are still a lot of great people blogging on...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 10/02/2006

Model Talker will allow individuals to create their own custom TTS voice

It was only a matter of time.... AgoraNet, Inc. appears to be in the process of introducing the...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 07/11/2006

The Blizzard Challenge: Rate text to speech samples

What's the Blizzard Challenge? In a shell's nut, it's a competition that provides researchers and...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/30/2006

Vista Beta 2 Screen Reader and Text to Speech

If you are running Vista Beta 2, check out the new text to speech functionality using the Narrator...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/09/2006

Text to Speech in Mission Impossible 3: A Dissection

Besides being the best of the three MI movies, there were 2 instances of TTS in the movie that...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 05/12/2006

Problems with French Liason in TTS - "A thread is a happy husband?"

Recently I was talking to a colleague who is a native French speaker (hey, that's the great benefit...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 03/23/2006

Shakespeare video with text to speech

Egads, it's quite clear that Shakespeare wasn't meant to be read with a text to speech voice... or...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 02/14/2006

What is TTS? How does it work?

I recently went over the entry in Wikipedia on text-to-speech, and it turns out to be a really good...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 02/07/2006

Another blogger on TTS

Check out Blake's blog here and you can see some of the enthusiasm around text to speech. Blake's...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 01/30/2006

Get El Mundo in podcast in Spanish

El Mundo is one of the more well known newspapers in Spain. And they are now offering an MP3 podcast...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 01/26/2006

Who else blogs on speech at Microsoft?

(No, it can't just be me... oh, and it isn't...) Stephen Potter has an extensive list of bloggers...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 01/19/2006

How do you pronounce the digit "1"?

This is an interesting, if not challenging problem for TTS systems. So, how should you pronounce...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 01/17/2006

Listen to emails and word documents in MP3 format on Pocket PC

Just when you thought you might be able to use your car commute time to sit back and relax, listen...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 01/04/2006

Deskbot adds cool animations with text to speech

I recently found an article describing the Deskbot which is one of the cooler text to speech reader...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 12/29/2005

New Hindi text to speech voice. Are you a native Hindi speaker? What's your opinion?

There was an ariticle on web that describes a company with a TTS voice for Hindi. And for all you...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 12/13/2005

Girl saved from text to speech device: Dynavox Software

Truly! Find out how you too can use TTS when watching the Macy's Day Parade to reflect falling...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 12/06/2005

Jim Allchin comments on Vista text to speech

When you look back at what Windows was in 1990 and you look at what Vista is slated to be next year,...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 11/22/2005

I'm back from paternity leave

Just when you think you are settling into a job, they encourage you to take a month off. Sorry to...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 11/04/2005

Third Party Text to Speech Voices

Microsoft has a page buried on its website that details a few third party speech component...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 09/27/2005

Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator

Egads! Check out this video which predicts the future of computing... in particular, the TTS is......

Author: jaywaltm Date: 09/27/2005

Article for coding TTS to .wav

Here is a brief article on some step by step instructions on the code I recently posted with help...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 08/31/2005

Using C# to output TTS to a .wav

The purpose of this brief article is to demonstrate, step by step with screenshots, how you can use...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 08/31/2005

Tester Positions in Speech here at Microsoft

I realize I'm a little new around here, but I am continually impressed with the caliber of...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 08/26/2005

Podcast definition provided by Mac sales rep

While browsing the U-Village this weeked with my wife and babe, I begged by wife to let me have a...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 08/08/2005

MyNewsToGo will take your RSS feed and make it an MP3

MyNewsToGo is a nice looking RSS newsreader that will also convert your feeds to an MP3. Sounds like...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 08/08/2005

NSF site on linguistics

Here is a great site on a lot of issues related to language and linguistics.

Author: jaywaltm Date: 08/01/2005

Creating a speech enabled application

Matt Harrington has provided a great article on writing some code to enable speech. It even comes...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 08/01/2005

Speech Wiki

Thanks to Jen Anderson on posting this wiki on speech.

Author: jaywaltm Date: 07/27/2005

Speech Synthesis in Local Languages by HP

Looks like HP is on the move to do some TTS of local languages using the Festival kit (thanks to...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 07/22/2005

Nuance allows for a custom voice?

Interesting press release from Nuance stating that their partners are now able to create their own...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 07/18/2005

Text to MP3

Here's a cool looking text to speech app that's just been released. What's cool about it? Well, it...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 07/06/2005

How would you like 24 FREE text-to-speech voices as soon as you can download them? But wait... there's a catch!!

NextUp software offers some apps that allow you to read different kinds of documents and text...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/29/2005

Military wants speech to speech capabilities

Okay, so the military really wants speech to speech capabilities... just think of the possibilities...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/21/2005

Text-to-speech overivew in Scientific American

Scientific American recently posted an article overview of text-to-speech. I know that other...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/17/2005

Yahoo's speech groups are migrating

Thanks to Jen Anderson for pointing out that the yahoo speech groups are now migrating off of Yahoo...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/14/2005

Text-to-speech - coming to a Sony PSP near you

Do you dabble with Sony's Play Station Portable (PSP)? Even the PSP thinks that text-to-speech is...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/13/2005

Text-to-Speech for ATMs

Here's an interesting article on the importance of text-to-speech for use in ATMs to benefit the...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/09/2005

3rd party text-to-speech software - Adding effects to TTS

There are a whole bunch of text-to-speech programs out there for your PC, and one that I recently...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/09/2005

Accuracy scores for text-to-speech voices - MS in 4th - but not for long

How does one do accuracy testing of different text to speech voices? That’s a real interesting...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/07/2005

Comparing English Text-to-Speech Samples

So how does one go about comparing the range of text-to-speech voices available? TMA Associates has...

Author: jaywaltm Date: 06/05/2005