I would appreciate some more feedback on the latest development with my MOI video tutorials - commentaries using text-to-speech technology.

There are two tutorials, one in English, the other in French.
Both have been seen before without sound, and can be found on my test site at:

http://gbpatriot.toucansurf.com/

There is an online poll for visitors but I should prefer feedback on this thread if possible.

This is my first attempt at creating a commentary in French, despite hardly speaking a word of the language. I used the new Google Translate service to create the French text. As yet it is not 100% accurate so I kept translating it back and forth from English into French, altering the odd word, then translating again until I got a consistent result. Phew!

The voices were created using high quality text-to-voice technology. This enabled me to convert the written text into synthetic speech. Using this technology could enable me to widen my audience.

I seek honest and constructive feedback on the synthetic voices and, with the French commentary, some idea of linguistic accuracy no matter how bad it may be. :-))

Should this be successful I might translate all my tutorials into French, German and Spanish. If judged a disaster, then I shall stick to English commentaries.

Ray

Damned i have erased my post!

So one more time :)

Funny thing but a cool method will be to send me the French text before for some little corrections ;)
It's not a disaster at all but some small things must be changed :)

For me (as frenchy ) the English part is perfect :)
Is that also a translation from another language? :)

Have you the address of this technical voice translation?
Maybe another voice will be more suitable with French tutorial?

A little trick : try to not put English text on the movie if you want make multi-languages tutorials ; !)

Hello Pilou, thank you for your constructive tips and comments

Here are the key links to my resources:

http://translate.google.com/translate_t# - Google Translate

http://www.naturalreaders.com/ - Text-to-voice software

http://www.naturalreaders.com/sample.htm# 2 French voices with examples

http://www.nextup.com/scansoft.html 4 French Voices with examples

http://nextup.com/acapela.html 4 French Voices with examples

As I have many video tutorials planned there will be far too much text for you to edit - a nice idea but a little impractical.
Perhaps this was a step too far - but I really enjoyed the challenge!

Ray

< a nice idea but a little impractical.
Why not ;)
You have made yet so many tuts?
Very easy for me to correct :)
2 minutes for the Moi's Tut ;)

What do you prefer ?
A perfect thing or something surrealist because automatic translator are not yet perfect :)

Alice Acapela is the best choice voice for french from these links proposed!

Then I accept your kind offer Pilou.

I shall resume my work in the morning and send some text for you to proof read when ready.

Thank you also for the choice of voice - I shall purchase it tomorrow.

Ray

You can use the PM system with an Internet link address where I can load your texts:)