TTS Voice French (Juliette)

[tchiboo]

Hi all,

I was using Adobe Captivate 5.5, and now I've upgraded up to the version 6.0. (Very nice)

I have a problem now. I was using the french voice "Juliette". Yet, with the version 6.0 there is no french voice anymore.

What could I do ?

I tried with Chloe (canadian french) But Canadian French sounds like a foreign language... for non canadians...

Many thanks.

[TTS211]

Hello,

iSpeech offers both a male and female Canadian French voice.  To preview them you can go to the demo page. 

[tchiboo · Accepted solution]

Hi, I found a wonderful Voice catalog that I can install and use with Captivate 6

Info iVox manager http://www.assistiveware.com

Best regards

[shawninvancouver]

tchiboo wrote:

Hi, I found a wonderful Voice catalog that I can install and use with Captivate 6

Info iVox manager http://www.assistiveware.com

Best regards

This product may be a problem for some because it is an Apple only solution.

[tchiboo]

The problem was just on Mac OS X, because there are a lot of solutation for Windows.

[shawninvancouver]

TTS211 wrote:

Hello,

iSpeech offers both a male and female Canadian French voice.  To preview them you can go to the demo page. 

Please note that you will only get those voices if you choose the much more expensive commercial account.

[shawninvancouver]

tchiboo wrote:

Hi all,

I was using Adobe Captivate 5.5, and now I've upgraded up to the version 6.0. (Very nice)

I have a problem now. I was using the french voice "Juliette". Yet, with the version 6.0 there is no french voice anymore.

What could I do ?

I tried with Chloe (canadian french) But Canadian French sounds like a foreign language... for non canadians...

Many thanks.

Check out this voice... being Canadian (and very familiar with the French Canadian accent), these are pretty darn good:
http://www.acapela-group.com/french--canadian-97-text-to-voice.html

Another is Elodie from http://www.lumenvox.com/products/tts/#

And some others (no time to test):

http://www.oddcast.com/technologies/tts/

According to this page: http://www.cepstral.com/company/press_and_news.html  - my favourite TTS company DOES offer a French Canadian voice (but the link is from 2004 and now broken). Perhaps you could ask them?

Now, the caveat. Just like many of the other TTS offerings, it is nearly impossible to get these voices on your desktop and/or you must purchase this voice as SaaS at a very greedy rate of around 300 Euros per hour (I can hire a voice actor with superior voice for less!). 

The best and nicest priced TTS voices I have found so far are from Cereproc in Scotland. http://www.cereproc.com/

Unfortunately, they do not have a French Canadian voice available.

Good luck,

Shawn