You may noticed that in some cases certain exclamations in the document are doubled by the same exclamation in brackets (“), this is simply to avoid that the (“) causes a pause with these exclamations that already have pauses. If there is a blank left in between, the exclamation will be ignored. Exclamations are always followed by an exclamation sign (!) – quite obviously – but without the blank between the word and the sign. Exclamations are a bit trickier to select and we kept the most commonly used ones. We built a trully realistic voice generator that can also deal with exclamations. The children’s voices have a lot of sounds.
Sounds are always between two pound signs #LAUGH01# in capital letters and sometimes followed by numbers if there are more than one of the same kind. These sounds help produce totally realistic text to speech messages. Sounds are produced by the speakers’ voice for laughing, breathing, sneezing, coughing or whatever sounds our voices can produce to mimic sounds we make in our daily lives. This creative feature adds an extra dimension to the realistic text-to-speech experience, making the messages sound engaging, authentic, and lifelike. Imagine this: as strange as it may seem, I know people who love the extremely robotic voices of the eSpeak synthesizer, And check it out! Now we can have it on our iPhones! Wow! Also the voices that most like the Vocalizer synthesizer are not there these things lately, not because of Apple I know, but it's true.Enhance your message with voice smileys (audio tags, sounds and exclamations) to make it more lively. Again, voices are not the most important thing we have in the system, but we have to take advantage of the openings that a company as closed as Apple has given us. What we are trying to do, I personally at least, is to encourage these developers to make use of this new moment of Apple, which will be beneficial for everyone: Apple, users, developers, etc. What happens is that the developers were not so enthusiastic about this new freedom that iOS gives us, so much so that we have not yet had any official synthesizers of these large companies available on our iPhones. Believe it or not, many people like Android more because of this openness, third-party synthesizers have been around for a long time in this system. The question here is this: Apple has done something unimaginable if we stop to analyze its posture of closing its ecosystem: it has released an API that allows developers to provide voice synthesizers that do not come by default in the system. I understand and agree that the iOS system is flowing well, especially in terms of accessibility, it is much more important than having new voices for the system. If you'd like to be notified about the release of the app, I can add you to our mailing list. We are looking to have the app released in the next few weeks, as we are at the tail end of development. This app will be very similar to the Android app as it'll allow users to purchase and use voices within the app, and across their system.
In regard to the development of an iOS app, using Apple's newest TTS API, we are soon releasing an application.
Thank you for getting in touch to tell us about your use of CereProc software, and what you'd like to see in the future. It is an option solely and exclusively from the producers of the voices, so much so that another company that produces synthetic voices, Cereproc, gave me a positive response when I asked them to make their voices available to us, as follows: I don't think it's the fault of third-party application developers dwarf availability of the voices of those who manufacture it throughout the system. I respect your opinion, my friend, but I don't agree with it.