All languages for BeSTspeech have been found (with Arabic not working for some reason).
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All languages for BeSTspeech have been found (with Arabic not working for some reason). Here's a demo of them in action.
@rommix0
Could I send them to Beqa Gozalishvili to make into sapi5 engines, maybe including them in with the pre-existing bestSpeech sapi5? I would love to have a speak window of these! -
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Could I send them to Beqa Gozalishvili to make into sapi5 engines, maybe including them in with the pre-existing bestSpeech sapi5? I would love to have a speak window of these!@joshknnd1982 you absolutely can. The api is slightly different, but should be workable.
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@joshknnd1982 you absolutely can. The api is slightly different, but should be workable.
@rommix0 already sent them to Beqa Gozalishvili.
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@rommix0 already sent them to Beqa Gozalishvili.
@joshknnd1982 cool
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@rommix0 just out of curiosity, where did you find those multilingual bestSpeech dll files at? some sort of old software? internet archive?
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@rommix0 just out of curiosity, where did you find those multilingual bestSpeech dll files at? some sort of old software? internet archive?
@joshknnd1982 lingvosoft talking dictionary. I found a pack of software files on some Russian website. I was able to extract the installers, and get the DLLs.
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All languages for BeSTspeech have been found (with Arabic not working for some reason). Here's a demo of them in action.
@rommix0 Man You must have been on some crazy site digging for these, good find! And hey, it's good to see you're on here again! Aside from tts how have you been?
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@rommix0 Man You must have been on some crazy site digging for these, good find! And hey, it's good to see you're on here again! Aside from tts how have you been?
@GoemonIshikawa I've been alright.
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All languages for BeSTspeech have been found (with Arabic not working for some reason). Here's a demo of them in action.
@rommix0 This is... Truly something else. Never thought I'd hear this voice speaking so many languages. A few of them seem slightly broken, I'm pretty sure the Hebrew one is just reading the names of the letters out loud, and the Japanese one is doing... Something, not quite sure what, maybe to do with the 3 writing systems they have? I'm curious to play with these for sure.
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All languages for BeSTspeech have been found (with Arabic not working for some reason). Here's a demo of them in action.
@rommix0 This may be a ridiculous idea and I might be entirely misguided, but have you tried giving the Arabic one characters with vowel diacritics?
E.G. Without diacritics: اكتب جملة قصيرة
With diacritics: أُكْتُبْ جُمْلَةً قَصِيرَةً -
@rommix0 This may be a ridiculous idea and I might be entirely misguided, but have you tried giving the Arabic one characters with vowel diacritics?
E.G. Without diacritics: اكتب جملة قصيرة
With diacritics: أُكْتُبْ جُمْلَةً قَصِيرَةً@guilevi I doubt it'll fix it, but I'll try it once I get home from work.
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@guilevi I doubt it'll fix it, but I'll try it once I get home from work.
@rommix0 I doubt so too, but it might be worth a try. My idea was based solely on the fact that Hebrew and Arabic have similar writing systems, in which vowels aren't written out in most texts. So synthesizers kind of have to guess at which vowel works where, and I figured BeST might just be taking the lazy approach and expecting you to write out the vowels.
I suspect something similar might be going on with Japanese, where Kanji are not being read out properly because they can actually have multiple correct pronunciations depending on context, where Hiragana and Katakana do spell out specific sounds so a synthesizer would have a much easier time trying to figure those out. The only thing that sustains that claim is that the word "konnichiwa" is read out properly and that one is usually spelled in Hiragana as far as I'm aware.
Of course, again, this is all speculation and I might be completely wrong, but I'd like to think my thoughts hold a little bit of water haha
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@rommix0 I doubt so too, but it might be worth a try. My idea was based solely on the fact that Hebrew and Arabic have similar writing systems, in which vowels aren't written out in most texts. So synthesizers kind of have to guess at which vowel works where, and I figured BeST might just be taking the lazy approach and expecting you to write out the vowels.
I suspect something similar might be going on with Japanese, where Kanji are not being read out properly because they can actually have multiple correct pronunciations depending on context, where Hiragana and Katakana do spell out specific sounds so a synthesizer would have a much easier time trying to figure those out. The only thing that sustains that claim is that the word "konnichiwa" is read out properly and that one is usually spelled in Hiragana as far as I'm aware.
Of course, again, this is all speculation and I might be completely wrong, but I'd like to think my thoughts hold a little bit of water haha
@guilevi for sure. That makes sense.
