Kate is starting to Stutter Again

batties · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 111

Did anyone on here manage to fine a solution to stuttering Kate? Would it help if I move the Kate voice file to my SDHC drive? Rolling Eyes

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blush · Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 4:21 pm Post subject:

My 950 Kate stutters quite a bit and some of the pronounciation is terrible. The TTS doesn't seem to have come on any further since the 910 I own. The fact the 910 is clearer is an insult. I have an iPhone app called "speak it!" and the voice is far better.

The pronounciation abroad is really bad and it's almost better to have place names switched off.

Robin2 · Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject:

I think you are a bit hard on Kate - in my opinion it's one of the best computer generated voices I have heard. Even the rise and fall at the beginning and end of sentences is very realistic. I have used Kate fairly extensively throughout France, and the pronunciation of street names has been good enough to be easily recognised (and the occasional howlers give us some innocent pleasure)
My first TTS was on CoPilot Live, and Kate is light years ahead.
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blush · Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 8:49 pm Post subject:

I use Kate on a daily basis cos the English male voice is very depressing. Kate sounds like she is telling you off though. One of the first phrases my son said when starting to talk was 'toll charge!"

My 69 year old father hears two voices at once when in mainland Europe.

I still think the voice could be tweaked a bit as some basic words sound wrong.

andy-c1 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 8:03 am Post subject:

like "park road" sounds more like pack road
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spook51 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 10:26 am Post subject:

I can live with Kate's vocal antics, they were quite amusing on a recent trip through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. I don't think her spoken commands are any worse than any other female giving directions and are invariably more reliable..... CoPilot

layingback · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 12, 2009 Posts: 124

Well you can improve Kate's pronunciation overall by doing this fix, detailed here. But read all the caveats first - eg. St becomes S and T as 2 words (as you delete the file which converts St to Saint), and it reportedly loses many of the (Canadian) French pronunciations (for the same reason).

[ Why doesn't TT just edit the offending file to remove those adaptations which hamper Loquendo? Admittedly it is most likely a TeleAtlas file, but they are all part of the same company now. ]
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