Test video tutorial for Quick Editor

[hutch--]

Could I impose on some of our members to test out this tutorial, it is a work in progress but it should make sense as it is. I have used a combination of screen capture and done the narrative using the standard SAPI5 speech synthesis as I have a very flat Australian accent and many folks may not properly understand what I was saying. I would be interested in if it is clear and easily understood with different speed internet connections, I have tried to keep the file size down so that it is not highly demanding on connection speed and on my own middle speed ADSL it looks OK.

[LordAdef]

Everything is fine for me. Running smoothly.

My only point is, and this a matter of personal taste, that I would rather have a human voice over than the synthetic one. It always bothers me when I get one of these in a video. But again, it's a matter of taste.

[hutch--]

I have got 4 different voices that will run in SAPI 5, 3 female and one male, what I have liked about them is they are very clear and far better quality than the earlier ones, I picked up a couple for Win7 but they are not as well done. If you start buying them they are really expensive, I have seen them being offered from 25 UK pounds for personal use only up to 99 Euros again for personal use only and any that are licenced for commercial use are rediculously expensive.

I have mainly seen the Microsoft ones used on Youtube by folks who are not native English speakers and I will at least listen to something that is clear and makes sense, the ones that drive me nutz are the badly narrated ones by in-articulate people who are not good speakers. In my own case I have a very flat inner city Sydney accent and many would not understand what I was saying.

[Siekmanski]

Runs smooth (300 Mbit/s cable). Wonder how it will sound with your voice. 

[mineiro]

Ok here, pc and smartphone, both with full screen and no lags.
I prefer natural voices too, and when I can't understand I turn on closed caption. I think that google and samsung offer voices for free but I don't have played a lot with these, only on cellphone to listen text while going to sleep.

[Mikl__]

Hi, hutch--!
I think that so that there is no misunderstanding and that no one should pay attention to the Australian accent - you need to add titles with the choice of language (English, German, Spanish, Russian, etc.)

[jj2007]

titles with the choice of language (English, German, Spanish, Russian, etc.)

German with Australian accent sounds interesting :t

[hutch--]

I can at best just manage the Australian dialect of English, its an ask out of range for me to provide multi-lingual commentary for a task of this type.

[guga]

Runs fine here :)

One small suggestion. You could try using other voices to not sounds  metalic. Loquendo, vocalizer or At&T have amazing voices to use with TTS that looks more natural

[hutch--]

Just tested the AT&T ones and they are nothing exciting. $250 to start and $50 for each extra voice.

[guga]

WOW !!! pretty expensive.

I found some sites for free. Maybe you can find some good voices there to be used

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival
http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm
http://www.zero2000.com/free-text-to-speech-natural-voices.html
http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html

[anunitu]

Perhaps you should just hire Morgan Freeman at those rates,or maybe David Attenborough. I know,purely day dreaming..but they already provide a dialog in my head anyway. 

And also it works fine,understood every word..And that is the bottom line,is it not?

[hutch--]

I am hoping to get a decent microphone delivered in the next couple of days so I can have a play with direct speech but I have my doubts that many will understand it properly. The action with the best of the Microsoft voices is that they can be easily understood and are far better than the earlier ones, SAPI4 sounds like a 40s movie robot. I had already been through the list that Guga found but the only extra one worth having was built into Win10 but disabled for desktop, the "Eva Mobile" one. Someone posted a patch to enable it and it works well, voice is a bit high pitched for what I have so far used it for. The AT&T ones were very ordinary and expensive as well.

[LordAdef]

https://translate.google.com.br/#en/pt/how%20about%20this%20one%3F

this one above, just press the little button and voila, free voice.

[hutch--]

These are the reliable and predictable voices I have access to. I have others but they are not as good and don't have the level of control.