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I tried it while the player was playing and no, it sounds just like DomoKun's date anouncement... so bad that you can't make out the speech.


You probably have other 'M' preinit scripts that are being run simultaneously to my TTS Clock program, or you tried R1 of my program. You can rename your other M scripts to B scripts that are alphabetically after B10tts and you will notice that it reads the time flawlessly using an AT&T Natural Voices recording.

Although flite is really cool, I still think prerecorded TTS would produce a better end result then flite can. Compare a recording of flite http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/audio/talkforever.wav to a recording of demo of the AT&T voice http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/index.html In car, I think that flite might be very difficult to understand while a voice like AT&T Natural Voices would be much easier to understand. If the price of the AT&T Natural Voices is too much, the free TTS provided by L&H and Microsoft are superior to flite as well http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads.htm#tts