PromptSculptor: Tuning Your Text-to-Speech

The essence of PromptSculptor is the ability to get the same nuances from text-to-speech that can be coached out of a human voice. When you use PromptSculptor, you are a voice talent coach for text-to-speech instead of for a live voice talent. Through instruction and hands-on exercises, up to ten (10) participants at your site gain the experience necessary to tune the phrasing, prosody, and pronunciation of TTS prompts. This course covers generation of audio files for use as static prompts. We also discuss using an ActivePrompt database to allow RealSpeak to use your tuned pronunciations when dynamically generating text. Please contact us directly to discuss scheduling this class.

• Describe why inflection is important
• Install PromptSculptor
• Configure PromptSculptor licensing
• Prepare prompts for PromptSculptor
• Determine which prompts need to be tuned
• Work with PromptSculptor project files
• Tune phrasing of TTS prompts
• Tune prosody of TTS prompts
• Tune pronunciation of TTS prompts
• Generate audio files for use as static prompts
• Create an ActivePrompt database to allow RealSpeak Host and Solo to always use your tuned pronunciations
• Create a custom speechbase to maximize RealSpeak Solo TTS while minimizing usage of disk space

• Application developers
• operations personnel
• project managers
• VUI designers

• Introduction to Speech Recognition
• Optimizing RealSpeak TTS Playback<.UL>