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From: scottc@agora.rdrop.com (Scott Christley)
Subject: Multi voice speech synthesis
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 05:22:14 GMT
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First thing first, where can I find an FAQ for this group so that I don't 
ask too many newbie questions?

Second I am looking for speech synthesis software that has these attributes:

. multi voice; this may not be the correct terminology but essentially I 
  need to produce a wide range of different voices.  Possibly 
  simultaneously so that I don't have to overlay the audio signals myself.

. highly parameterized; this also means that I can change these 
  parameters programatically and obtain instant modification of the 
  speech output.

. time synchronization; I must synchronize the speech with other events, 
  so I need duration both for full utterances as well as partial words.

. based upon a continous speech model; meaning correct flow of the speech 
  from word to word, not individual choppy words.

. large lexicon and the ability to produce unknown words on demand.

I prefer obtaining and/or licensing source code, but I am more than willing 
to license a run-time system to be embedded in a larger system.  Are you 
a commercial company?  Send me some info.  Do you have some personal 
software, maybe developed in college or spare time?  Let me know we can 
work something out if your system is good.  We are even willing to take 
partial source code that we can enhance.

We are a multimedia company that will be integrating advanced 
speech synthesis capabilities into our products, so we are looking for 
superior technology which will give us an edge.

thanks hope to hear from you!
please email scottc@agora.rdrop.com

fyi- we have some job openings available, if you are interested I can 
email you the announcement.
