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| Posted: Saturday Jan 6th, 2007 08:41 am |
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slychiu
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We are planning to record a new voice for the UK, as some have complained that our standard voice is not "english" enough
We have 2 potential candidates here so that everyone can have the opportunity to review
Charlie and Kate are the voices
Attachment: Charlie.mp3 (Downloaded 45 times)
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| Posted: Saturday Jan 6th, 2007 08:42 am |
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slychiu
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Thats something to look into. Perhaps some of the voices can be licenced.
You seem to be a fount of information!
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| Posted: Thursday Jan 25th, 2007 07:03 am |
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Does that mean we get Jon Cleese as a voice option like in TomTom :-)
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| Posted: Thursday Jan 25th, 2007 07:39 am |
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garym999
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If Cytech and their customers really wanted John Cleese then it would be a case of paying the royalities and studio time. Considering the debate over the current voice I'd guess that is going to be unlikley.
Would be a lovely thought that we could have that much flexibility but my suggestions above are really food for though for future versions of Comfort. The engine (electronics) is not there yet. No TTS engine or MP3 playback.
On the older TomToms real voices and phrases were encoded but (and this is where I think the main difference is) they managed to keep the continuity and inflections in place. The comfort processing seems to loose some of this. The latest TTs now use TTS technology.
My personal preference would be a TTS engine as this means that almost any word can be said rather than locking you in to specific ones. Of course there are good and bad versions of these and then being realistic the cost. Imagine the power of a Response "Say Text <location> <text string>". Where location is keypad, doorphone, ALARM SPEAKER and text string is a line of text.
Anyway back to todays voice, whatever her name is.
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| Posted: Wednesday May 16th, 2007 07:24 pm |
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garym999
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What about these....
Link1
Link2
Links take a while to download and not sure how long they will last.
As it is flash driven I wonder if it could be embedded into a touchscreen with comfort sending the text to speech?
Want to play?
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| Posted: Wednesday Aug 15th, 2007 02:34 am |
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I am pleased to announce the creation of a new UK voice.
It is available from:
http://www.cytech-technology.com/software_right.php?71
Note that the file is meant for use with Comfort II only.
Further editing may be necessary for the words, this is just to get an initial feedback
Regards
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| Posted: Wednesday Aug 15th, 2007 08:49 am |
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Both Anita and Kate are in BIN format
VoiceProc and VoicePlay (Id like to hear them first) both require INI files. How can we get to hear the voice in action before any upload to Comfort ?
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| Posted: Wednesday Aug 15th, 2007 04:21 pm |
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palmlodge
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I've put Kate on to the system - works ok - although had to use Comfigurator 212 to get it working - 221 failed multiple times.
What I find tho is the voice is too slow. But, if you speed things up in comfigurator, she says the words faster, but thats not the issue - it's the pause length between each word that need shortening, but I dont see an option there.
So, with things speeded up, she now says each word in a short sharp manner, but the gap between the words doesnt appear to change.
Is there a way to shorten the gap between the words in a phrase, and not the speed of the word itself ?
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| Posted: Thursday Aug 16th, 2007 02:30 am |
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slychiu
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This can be changed by editing of each word to reduce the silence before and/or after each word. This is not the final version of the voice, it is for feedback and comments - we will do a further edit on it after that
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| Posted: Tuesday Aug 21st, 2007 12:03 pm |
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garym999
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Oooh, I like her. More forceful and Much clearer voice.
As Palm lodge says, some timmings could be improved and also a coulple of the words need better volume matching.
Good work 
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| Posted: Wednesday Aug 22nd, 2007 06:37 am |
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palmlodge
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More forceful ? You want the Comfort Dominatrix version ? :-)
garym999 wrote:
Oooh, I like her. More forceful and Much clearer voice.
As Palm lodge says, some timmings could be improved and also a coulple of the words need better volume matching.
Good work
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| Posted: Thursday Aug 23rd, 2007 08:09 am |
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Kanna
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Kate has a great voice for the New Zealand / Australia market.
When is the upgrade available?
Thanks
Kanna
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| Posted: Thursday Aug 23rd, 2007 09:11 am |
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| Posted: Friday Aug 24th, 2007 09:53 am |
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garym999
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I have now uploaded Kate from a test system to a live system. Lets see how she likes living in there 
Of note was the fact I lost the greeting message etc. so for anyone testing just remember this.
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| Posted: Friday Aug 24th, 2007 12:45 pm |
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slychiu
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We should warn everyone that putting in a new voice will erase all the messages including Greeting, new, saved, Reminder Messages, Alarm Voice Messages so be prepared to rerecord greeting, reminder and Alarm Voice mesages (for announcement in all outgoing dial to voice phones)
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| Posted: Thursday Sep 13th, 2007 04:37 am |
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| Posted: Thursday Sep 13th, 2007 07:43 pm |
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garym999
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I have also had problems, files appear to download fine, you can even see contents under explorer but cannot extract them 
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