On Dec 30, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Chilton Webb wrote:

> I'm revisiting some old TTS code, and now that I've removed all  
> calls to dispose the speech channel, I've encountered other  
> problems. Notably, this sentence...
>
> "Dr. Jones lives on Rockhouse Dr."
>
> ...used to say, "Doctor Jones lives on Rockhouse Drive". Now it  
> says, "Doctor Jones lives on Rockhouse doctor".

I believe MacinTalk Pro (Victoria, Bruce, Agnes) said "Drive", while  
the other voices said "doctor". The other related case which we get  
wrong is St. for street / saint.

> Should I file a bug, or is the TTS technology likely to be  
> deprecated soon?

Please file a bug. We plan to stay around for the long haul, and TTS  
is an increasing focus in our work.

> I'm not being callous here, I ask because I've seen only one  
> advancement in TTS in recent years, with the advent of the Vicki  
> voice. Other than that, it's been a conspicuously untouched part of  
> MacOS technology.

I can assure you that TTS has been anything but "untouched", and I  
have CVS logs to prove it :-)

Unfortunately, we have noticed that many TTS improvements are not  
evident unless you play the old and new versions side by side. For  
instance, 10.2 featured a completely rewritten intonation model that  
sounded much better than what we had before. 10.3, as you mentioned,  
featured the Vicki voice, and 10.4 featured across-the-board  
improvements in the signal processing, especially related to speaking  
at very fast rates.

Matthias
  
  
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