ETI-Eloquence Contents

Introduction

ETI-Eloquence is a text-to-speech program that reads standard text aloud through your computer's sound card.  The program processes a wide variety of textual input, including abbreviations, acronyms, and numbers, and pronounces it with high-quality speech and a natural intonation.
In addition, you can customize ETI-Eloquence in a variety of ways.  You can insert special tags into the text to change voice characteristics, adjust sentence intonation, and choose text and number interpretation modes.  You can use phonetic spellings to specify the pronunciation of a word, and you can store these pronunciations in one of the user dictionaries.

Contents:

Tags Language/Dialect Emphasis Pause Length 	Insert special codes (tags) to customize the output.	Select a language and dialect.	Modify the intonation pattern of a sentence.	Insert pauses in the speech output.
	Built-in Voices 	Voice Characteristics 		Select from a family of built-in voices.	Modify voice characteristics like pitch, volume, and breathiness.
	Table of Tags	A listing of all the tags available.
Voices for the Telephone 	Choose voices with the right sampling rate for the telephone.
Symbolic Phonetic Representation 	4	Use phonetic spellings to customize pronunciation.
	Table of SPR Symbols	The phonetic alphabet used by ETI-Eloquence.
User Dictionaries 	Create your own dictionaries to customize pronunciation.
Glossary 	A glossary of terms used in this document.



