From: Jani Kinnunen <jkinnunen_at_pp.inet.fi>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:31:03 +0200

> Where can one get a hold of
> the IBM voice OutLoud??

At least OpenBook comes bundled with it. I think that it can also be
purchased directly from IBM, for a very high price, of course...

Jani

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jani Kinnunen" <jkinnunen_at_pp.inet.fi>
> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: MP3 clip generation with Eloquence
>
>
>>A great idea but don't you need to have the Eloquents synth installed
>> outside of the attached jfw synth?
>
> Yes, but that was only a thought. I also have IBM's ViaVoice Outloud, so I
> could use that too. BTW, both Eloquence and ViaVoice sounds almost the
> same,
> so it makes me thinking that Eloquence is a modified version of ViaVoice.
> Probably someone else has noticed it too?
>
>> It would be awesome to have eliquents rather then ms Sam LOL!
>
> That's right!
>
> Jani
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jani Kinnunen" <jkinnunen_at_pp.inet.fi>
>> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:27 AM
>> Subject: MP3 clip generation with Eloquence
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hurray! I've just managed to create a Finnish voice file for Rockbox with
>> the makevoices.vbs script. (Maybe someone remembers the SAPI4 problem I
>> had.) I did some Google'ing and I found that the SAPI4 setup program
>> doesn't
>> register the necessary DLL's which are needed for SAPI4 to work
>> correctly.
>> So I did some magic with the regsvr32 utility. Then I ran the
>> listvoices_sapi4.vbs script, and FINALLY it shows me all the available
>> SAPI4
>> synths I have installed.
>>
>> Now that SAPI4 is working, I have still one question: Is it possible to
>> generate the file and folder name clips with the Eloquence synthesizer,
>> or
>> alternatively, with a SAPI4 compatible one? Such a script like the
>> voicebox.wsf would do the job, but modified so that it would work with
>> SAPI4
>> or Eloquence.
>>
>> Jani
>>
>>
>>
>
Received on 2006-01-15