Or use Cepstral (the commercial TTS engine founded by the creators of Festival) and the person might actually believe its you talking. Or better yet, I hear Cepstral has a new initiative, VoiceForge, where you can create your own voice and soon put that on your iPod. Meet my agent....mini-me.
Good point Bibel- A single "Arabic" voice cannot effectively communicate with even the entire Iraqi population (Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish.) For this reason, the language dialect chosen for the project was Iraqi Arabic having a Baghdadi accent.
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Or use Cepstral (the commercial TTS engine founded by the creators of Festival) and the person might actually believe its you talking. Or better yet, I hear Cepstral has a new initiative, VoiceForge, where you can create your own voice and soon put that on your iPod. Meet my agent....mini-me.
Good point Bibel- A single "Arabic" voice cannot effectively communicate with even the entire Iraqi population (Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish.) For this reason, the language dialect chosen for the project was Iraqi Arabic having a Baghdadi accent.