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On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. The degree of accent present can be controlled and naturalness is relatively consistent across a range of accent values. If you have not already done so, set up the Text to Speech feature. Experiments further indicated that the transform preserved many of the characteristics of the original voice. Per the patent, text can be obtained at a device from various forms of communication such as e-mails or text messages. Patent & Trademark Office for 'voice assignment for text-to-speech output' shows that Apple is looking to add more variety and flavor to text-to-speech voices. In one case the transformed voice outperformed a native language voice in listening tests. A new Apple patent (number20120265533) at the U.S. We found that the simple transform was sufficient to convert a voice from one language to the other with a high degree of naturalness. However, until recently, children with communication difficulties only had access to adult text to speech voices to express their thoughts, needs and desires.
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It supports English and Spanish languages. The 3D avatar will interpret text/speech input in English and deliver real-time sign language translations, ena.
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In our experiments speaker data from an English-Spanish (Mexican) bilingual speaker was used, and the goal was to enable English speakers to speak Spanish and Spanish speakers to speak English. It offers full text to speech through a APIs via shell and though a Scheme command interpreter. If I highlight a section of text on the screen and use double-tap/right click -> Speech -> Start Speaking, then it uses Siri Male Alex voice. The same transform can be applied even to monolingual speakers. If I highlight a section of text on screen, and use Option-Escape, the voice is the correct voice that I want and have selected. We demonstrate that a bilingual speaker embedding space contains a separate distribution for each language and that a simple transform in speaker space generated by the speaker embedding can be used to control the degree of accent of a synthetic voice in a language. We present progress towards bilingual Text-to-Speech which is able to transform a monolingual voice to speak a second language while preserving speaker voice quality.