Spanish Directions and Virtual Spanish Speech
Hola all - and happy 4th to all you gringos! I've finally posted newsletter 69, which lightly covers Spanish directions, and introduces an exciting new technology. TTS, or text to speech - is not really a "new" technology, but the quality of the voices has been drastically increased in recent years. Finding good Spanish voices for these TTS engines which drive interactive applications is not easy - I've scoured the net and have only found 1 voice from Spain which I was able to download already - Virtual Ana. Check her out here!
virtual-ana.swf
These types of virtual characters can make e-learning a lot more fun, and offer a chance to have instant feedback in Spanish that goes way beyond what you can do with pre-recorded speech. Since AI or artificial intelligence is a bit of a fascination of mine, I am hoping to find ways to incorporate emerging AI and TTS technologies into my language programs wherever possible.
But for those of you more interested in español than tecnología...this week's lesson will be up on the blog shortly.
3 Comments:
interesting!
and here is a site for catching some quick phrases of different languages:
http://www.infoext.com/lang/
Check out the voices we found from Loquendo. We have the male voice in our demo
http://www.3dlanguage.net/
Loquendo has some of the best I've heard - thanks so much for the link - if there's one I can buy for use with Flash MX development (or I guess Flash 8) that'd be great!
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