New Hindi text to speech voice. Are you a native Hindi speaker? What's your opinion?

There was an ariticle on web that describes a company with a TTS voice for Hindi. And for all you SAPI devs, the desktop version is SAPI compliant. According the article, "'Vaachak', developed by Prologix Software Solutions, is the first, high-quality, Indian language TTS system, which converts Hindi and English text into natural and pleasant sounding speech."

So, is it any good? I can tell you that the acoustic quality, at least from the demos, sounds a bit compressed and there is certainly some artifacts from concatenation. But still, who else out there has a Hindi TTS system?

What do you think? Are you a native speaker of Hindi? I'd love to get your impressions of the sample waves or you can use the demo to enter in Hindi text and have it read out.

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2005
  What's "Vaachak" mean in Hindi? Kunal Mukerjee, a colleague, points out that it means "One who explains and elucidates. Also, commentator."

• Anonymous
  February 19, 2006
  Recently I have visited a site for Hindi Text To Speech System http://www.blissit.org . This site has some nice voices for download. You can find that on http://www.blissit.org/hinditts.htm and http://www.blissit.org/hindittssamples.htm . I feel these people has done a good job.

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