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Version 1.3 of Text to Speech for Video has been released. Most of the focus for this release was on improving the "Huckleberry" voice in both quality and quantity of vocabulary (wordcount for this voice is now 2300 plus, up from 2000 plus).

Some changes were also made to the interface to make it easier to display alternate versions of words and to easily accomodate phrases rather than just single words. See the readme document under the Files tab above for details.

Version 1.2 of Text To Speech for Video has just been released with the following enhancements:

• Minor improvements to screen layout allow for display of more information.
• The documentation has been expanded and updated.
• A new voice "Eve" (female, British accent) has been added with an initial vocabulary of over 1600 words.

Version 1.10 of Text to Speech for Video has been released. Two of the most significant improvements are:

1. The "Huckleberry" voice now includes 2000+ word recordings (up from 1500+). In addition to new words, more alternates (fast, slow, emphatic, questioning, etc.) are now available for many of the more common words.

2. There is a new feature to see what alternates (if any) are available for any given word. You can either type a word into the entry box provided for this purpose or double-click on a word in the main entry box using your mouse. The program will then display a list of all pronunciations available for that word in the active voice. For instance, if the "Huckleberry" voice is active, the word there would show the following variations available:... read more

Since Text to Speech for Video uses a separate recording for each word in any given voice, it will only say words that are within its (limited) vocabulary. When you click the button to say what you have typed in and one or more words are not in the vocabulary, the program will say what it can, omitting the unavailable words. What can you do at that point?

(1) You can rephrase. For example if you have selected the "Huckleberry" included voice and type "Huck is a terrible boy" and the program says "Huck is a boy", you can assume that the word "terrible" is not in the vocabulary of the "Huckleberry" voice. You might try something like "Huck is a bad boy" or "Huck is one sorry boy indeed".... read more

I made a short video using the Huckleberry voice from Text to Speech for Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhGRfhvzhM

(animation and lip-sync were created in Daz Studio ver 4.5)

Text to Speech for Video, Release 1.01 has been posted. This was a minor release to correct a discrepancy between the (slightly out of date) source files and the latest Windows binary. Also a small text file was added to the output folder to explain its purpose.