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In this particular instance, there are just a couple of words I've come across that I wanted to use... these included: good, bad, morning, afternoon, evening, and perhaps one or two others that I've since forgotten.
It occurred to me in the short term, perhaps I could record the exact phrase I want as a reminder message, and play that in my response in lieu of actually having Comfort able to speak them...
If I find a TTS voice that is similar enough to the current voice, I could record the TTS output rather than speaking it myself... Could I use a UCM-Audio to capture the output from my PC in order to get the best possible recording? - Stereo out from my soundcard directly to Line-in jack socket on audio submodule?
Is there perhaps some prospect here of an area for future development for Comfort? - move over from a real human voice to a TTS voice, and roll the functionality into either Comfigurator or Voiceproc? - I could forsee a day when all questions & queries regarding matching new words with the existing voice go away... Customers could give their comfort panel *any* vocabulary they want in any TTS voice they care to use... you could make known what original TTS voice you use to create the wordlist shipped with Comfort so customers could choose to purchase the same voice if they wished, alternatively, you just have to code to allow any SAPI voice to be controlled... In terms of the user experience, it would be *fabulous* to have Comfigurator, in addition to offering the drop-down list of words in the "Announce Words" action, there is also a text-entry item where absolutely any word could be entered... Comfigurator recognises the word is not in the current wordlist, and invokes the TTS engine to speak it directly into a file which is then processed just as it is in wordproc today... the text entered in the box becomes the text required for the keypad screens... so new vocabulary download files are built completely automatically.... Comfigurator knows that new words have been generated, and so automatically invokes the vocab upgrade procedure when the user next chooses to write the config to the panel...
I think everything necessary to achieve this is already available... we have a highly manual process for doing this today, so no hardware changes would be required, just the engineering effort in the software...
Just a thought... :-)
Paul G.
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