对于语言学习者来说,学习语音语调是不可忽视的一环。相比其他TTS(语音合成)产品来说,我认为其最大的亮点就是加入了语音语调(尽管还有需要进一步完善的地方)。我相信我们中的大部分人都很喜欢babylon,作为多语种的词典babylon的确是登峰造极了,但是不少用户(包括我)都觉得其最大的败笔就是没有一个好的语音合成技术,淡如一杯白开水。现在,悦文网正在解决这个问题!
哦!对了!你还可以将自己合成的语音或者别人分享的语音下载下来,或放在电脑里或放在其他移动设备里(mp3,手机,ipod…)随时听,它的输出格式为16kHhz单声道MP3。你看!现在人人都可以自制语音电子书了!
1.网页之语音合成
适用于网站在最小更改页面的基础上给用户提供文本朗读功能。
悦文网提供远程javascript功能,方便网站管理员通过简单的页面调用以完成用户自由选择文本然后合成语音文件。
2.个人用户之浏览器朗读篇
适用于个人用户直接通过浏览器插件、扩展直接通过悦文网朗读当前网页。
悦文网提供浏览器插件IE(toolbar),Firefox(extension)等,个人用户安装后请即可以通过插件直接朗读网页内容。
好了,现在就去悦文网玩下吧:http://www.textvoz.com/
(附上2段绕口令:打南边来了个哑巴,腰里别了个喇叭;黑化肥发灰,灰化肥发黑)
When I was listening to those well-known tongue twisters on the “share zone” of textvoz.com, I knew I was going to laugh out loud.
The China-Based start-up Textvoz.com went online just two days ago (Nov. 20th), but in these cold winter days, it indeed fascinated me with a surprise, I bet it will continuously creating fun to our netizens’ life.
Textvoz.com is a TTS(Text to Speech) technology backed website, it currently provides online TTS services in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, French, German, and Spanish, with interface languages of Chinese and English. There will be more TTS and interfaces in the future.
It is critically important to language learners to adapt the right tones and accents. And compare to other TTS products; this is what Textvoz is good at (although it still needs some improvements). I would assume that many of us loved “Babylon”, it is a great product, and as a multi-language dictionary, it is at the mountain top, however, many users (including me) thought if we could point out one big failure of Babylon, it would be its TTS–tastes like a glass of water (Chinese metaphor, means boring). Now, Textvoz is going to fix that problem!
Oh! By the way, you can download and share your TTS materials, and put them in your mp3 players, cellphones, ipods, etc. since it exports any materials to 16 KHz Mono mp3 format. Guess what? Now you can start compiling your own audio books!
And you may wonder what’s coming next? They said:
1. web TTS for webmaster
Provide realtime TTS function with minimum change on web pages for webmasters.
2. user TTS on the browsers
Provide realtime TTS function on users’ personal browser with browser plugin or extension.
Good Luck! Have fun with it: http://www.textvoz.com/
(PS: the two tongue twisters I was listening to earlier was: 打南边来了个哑巴,腰里别了个喇叭;黑化肥发灰,灰化肥发黑 )