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Japanese TTS on Google Translate - nest0r - 2011-03-05
In case anyone didn't notice, Google added Japanese support in December or so: http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/12/18/google-translate-adds-listen-japanese/
Korean also.
I see in the comments they mention: http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/speech.asp - Which seems to use Neospeech's Misaki voice engine.
Edit: I see Bokusenou already touched on this stuff in another thread. I'm too slow!
Japanese TTS on Google Translate - Jarvik7 - 2011-03-06
Seems a lot worse than I remember Misaki being.
Related: OSX lion will include Japanese (and Chinese and Korean) text to speech.
Japanese TTS on Google Translate - nest0r - 2011-03-06
At the moment Google's looks pretty limited to a relatively few words.
Were you referring to imtranslator's rendering? I assume that's the difference (didn't listen to a lengthier piece)—if one hypothetically used the Misaki engine with a standalone TTS program it might sound better?
I was reading some interesting article that talks about the ways OSX and iOS are on a kind of spectrum and OSX is becoming in ways more like iOS?
I saw screenshots of Windows 8 recently. No idea if they were real, but I noticed very large buttons. Maybe it's becoming more touch-friendly? I'm thinking in terms of production-oriented tablets/slates, so I guess I was thinking of iterations they were working on that touched on touch and the main OS rather than the dedicated OS they might make for a consumption-oriented tablet, which I don't really care about since I have no problems with Windows 7 + stylus/multitouch.
Edit: Ah I see: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Windows-8-user-interface-details-leak-touch-will-be-the-name-of-the-game_id17228
I wonder if OSX's TTS will be any good for Japanese.