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If they used a custom chip, I bet they could fit a text-to-speech engine in less chip space than the flash required to store the prerecorded audio of the track
by blackguardx 18y ago
If they used a custom chip, I bet they could fit a text-to-speech engine in less chip space than the flash required to store the prerecorded audio of the track information.
- wmf 18y agoSure, they could fit a crappy TTS engine on a chip, but Alex (what Apple is using) is 670MB. I suspect a 4GB Shuffle has significantly less than 670MB worth of voice clips in it. http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/voices/ http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/voices/ http://gannett-hscp.blogspot.com/2008/03/biggest-file-in-leopard-alexs-voice.html http://gannett-hscp.blogspot.com/2008/03/biggest-file-in-leo...
- tvon 18y agoFYI, you need to sync from Leopard to get Alex on the shuffle, both Tiger and Windows use a lower quality voice (so says Daring Fireball).
- 10ren 18y agoyep, looks like the OP was right after all: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/11/ipod-shuffle-voiceover http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/11/ipod-shuffle-voi... Alex takes up 18% of Leopard.
- blackguardx 18y agoThe voice from that link doesn't sound that much better than the text-to-speech engine that came with my 16-bit soundblaster sound card in 1992. It certainly didn't take up 670 Mb. Sure Alex is better, but it apparently takes orders of magnitude of complexity to get just a small improvement.