A life of study Posted July 14, 2008 at 05:32 AM Report Posted July 14, 2008 at 05:32 AM (edited) I have software called Wenlin which has 2 people, a man and a woman, reading the characters, but the audios are of single characters only, and so do not handle whole words, tone sandhi, r hua, neutral tone. Is there any software that reads words properly? As Chinese has a reduced number of potential syllables compared with English,I figure it is possible to make such software with a couple of thousand audio files and not the tens of thousands that would be needed for English. Edited July 14, 2008 at 10:40 PM by roddy Quote
roddy Posted July 15, 2008 at 05:09 PM Report Posted July 15, 2008 at 05:09 PM You could look for Text to Speech solutions here. Alternatively the new release of Pleco will have tons of audio files included - but you'd need a PDA to run it. Quote
JustinP Posted August 18, 2008 at 09:26 PM Report Posted August 18, 2008 at 09:26 PM The text-to-speech from my electronic dictionary (Besta) doesn't sound very smooth, especially when it's trying to read the whole sentence. I hvae heard another dictionary using human voice for whole words, which sounds better. Quote
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