Natural Voice Dictionary for NS TTS

cp99 · 06-02-2006

Many of us use the TTS script for NetStumbler with the default MS TTS engine. This can cause problems like mispronounced SSID names, turning SE into South East, and spelling out all capitol letters.
AT&T Natural voices, a wonderful TTS engine can be installed, and used in its place.
Demo here: http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

This TTS engine still has many pronunciation problems, which is why I have compiled a dictionary of common and default SSID, and their proper (or close) pronunciation to be used with Natural Voices.

You can here a demo of how it would sound while running in NS with the TTS script http://depositfiles.com/files/90118/ttsdemo.wav.html

Attached is a text file, to use simply, paste the text into en_us.dict (or your local language) in the NV directory.

If you use Natural Voices, then this dictionary is for you, and if you don't use Natural Voices, It is something to look into.

EDIT***

If there is an SSID missing, or one you want added to the list to be fixed for use with NV, please let me know.

CP

goldfndr · 06-29-2006

I have to say, this is a really nice list. It's a nice complement to my own list (attached). Mine is geared toward generating WAV files from the demo site rather than using a local installation of the licensed product.

Using your list, one can generate WAV files from the site. All it takes is changing { to <pron sym=" and changing } to " />. For example, GlobalSuiteWireless (which I found rather daunting) would be entered as

Code:

<pron sym="g l ow 1 b ax l 0 s w iy t w ay 1 er l ih s 0" />

and sounds much better than the "Glow Bals White Wireless" that Microsoft Sam speaks.

I had a desire to learn the IPA alphabet as used by AT&T Natural Voices, and I can definitely learn from you. You'll see there are some places where we disagree on pronunciation (e.g. MSFTWLAN) but I don't know of any authoritative SSID pronunciation guide. (as if!)

Some other potentially recognized directives (according to the documentation) are:

<rate absspeed="n">text</rate>
(n being 18 for 8x speed, 10 for 3x speed, 6 for 2x speed, 0 for 1x speed, -6 for 1/2 x speed, -10 for 1/3 x speed, -18 for 1/8 x speed, or integers between)
<silence msec="n" />
<spell>text</spell>
<voice required="name=voicename">text</voice>
(voicename being one of the voices in the list, e.g. audrey)
<volume level="n">text</volume>
(n being between 0 and 200 inclusive, with 100 for normal, 200 for twice as loud)

pron is for PRONunciation.

Hmm, need to get a "Safeway" recording for 5ECUR3w3p5TOR3 next... oh, and the next one I'd like to see is "orange" (and its siblings orange12/orange13/orange14).

G8tK33per · 06-29-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by goldfndr

pron is for PRONunciation.

Damn...

Dutch · 06-29-2006