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Some of the toolkit components are mere proof-of-concepts rather than state of the art solutions. This section lists alternatives to some of these components.

Speech Recognition

Conversational speech recognizers often need to be trained for use with specific domains. Untrained recognizers may perform poorly. Some recognizer options are:

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If you are interested in the USC Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory providing you with custom speech models for Sonic, please contact us.

Text To Speech

The toolkit uses MS SAPI as a TTS interface, so that any SAPI compatible voice can be used with the toolkit. Using a new voice only requires downloading and installing it and changing the character's voice ID. See the FAQ for details.

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Festival offers other voices with better quality but might require licensing.

Renderer

SmartBody has been integrated with the following renderers:

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