02-10-2011, 07:56 PM
It would take around 100+ hours of my spare time (approx 12.5 days full-time) to publish book 1. This will result in 250+ sound files.
Most of time is spent putting "hints" to the text to speech synthesis program. The "hints" are changing pitch/ vibration/ tone/ and intensity of each word according to usage and making sure pronunciation of each word is correct.
The voice is "premium" voice, the speech synthesis is high-end version of the software. The computer to do this, is one of the highest performing (and most expensive).
If you use the normal text-to-speech synthesis products, the voice sounds really terrible and very dry - towards irritation and not wanting to listening (to it) again.
The sound files will be given free-of-charge.
Most of time is spent putting "hints" to the text to speech synthesis program. The "hints" are changing pitch/ vibration/ tone/ and intensity of each word according to usage and making sure pronunciation of each word is correct.
The voice is "premium" voice, the speech synthesis is high-end version of the software. The computer to do this, is one of the highest performing (and most expensive).
If you use the normal text-to-speech synthesis products, the voice sounds really terrible and very dry - towards irritation and not wanting to listening (to it) again.
The sound files will be given free-of-charge.