On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:28:02 +0100, "Jeroen Hellingman (Mailing List Account)" <jeroen.mailinglist@bohol.ph> wrote: |Hi All, | |I am studying the options for preparing ebooks for text-to-speech. Does |anybody have experience with that and willing to share experience. | |I am looking at things like SSML, aural-CSS, and text-to-speech |software. Any software that can support this? My intention is to add the |relevant tags to my TEI master, and generate SSML from that, feed that |to TTS software to obtain audio files (Ideally, I would only post the |SSML, and let people regenerate the speech when needed). Any tools that |can be advised? | |Things to consider are additional tags to disambiguate words with |identical spelling (read and read; record and record, for example), and |to help pronouncing dates, currency amounts, measures, abbreviations, etc. Not to mention the different forms of ?English? American, Queens English, Indian English, Strine, to mention but a few. An American voice would sound terrible after a whole book. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> Freedom of Speech, Expression, Religion, and Democracy are the keys to Civilization, together with legal acceptance of Fundamental Human rights.