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Poster:	simon c	Date:	December 15, 2003 11:46:37pm
Forum:	gutenberg	Subject:	Re: Audio-Books at Gutenberg

Aw, I didn't know the Mike Eschman stuff is text to speech :( Thanks for picking that up.

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Poster:	visa798	Date:	January 05, 2004 11:18:41am
Forum:	gutenberg	Subject:	Re: Audio-Books at Gutenberg

Has anyone tried to run the text through a text to speech reader that uses the AT&T Natural Voices engine (such as TextAloud MP3)?

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Poster:	Robot Books	Date:	August 03, 2004 01:14:48am
Forum:	gutenberg	Subject:	Re: Audio-Books at Gutenberg

I've been using the Festival Speech Synthesis System for a number of projects. I have to say, it sounds a whole lot better than the audio produced for Gutenberg, mentioned in previous posts on this thread.

Hopefully, today will be my first post on archive.org, and people can judge for themselves.
The posting is not a classic text, but falls more into the current events category. However, perhaps my next project will be to offer a couple of books to Project Gutenberg. I've already synthesized a couple of Mark Twain books, and War and Peace.

I've actually gotten to the point I kinda like the Robot voice. However, I recognize that many people are put off by it. I think people should give synthesized speech more consideration. Once you get used to it, a whole new word of mobile listening is available.