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BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

olivfry — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:31:24 GMT

Hello, from 2012-present for telephones with answering machines and not a Digital Voice phone, the answering machine voice is text-to-speech and is called Amy, I hope anyone here knows a bit about it and has managed to replicate it somehow. And can anyone give me information about when it was created, how it was created and the first phone to use this voice. Hopefully someone here (like a creator of a BT phone) can respond or a BT admin can respond and pass me onto the right team. Thank you

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

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Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:42:07 GMT

May be worth looking here http://www.samhallas.co.uk/telecomms.htm

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

olivfry — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:55:41 GMT

Thank you, unfortunately that didn’t seem to have the information I was looking for, by the way it is this I’m referring to: https://www.mediafire.com/file/q4tuxbdzfmddsx2/ScreenRecording_12-30-2024_13-49-33_1.mp3/file

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:09:35 GMT

That is just the default message stored on many answering machines.

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

olivfry — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:12:20 GMT

I know, which in my original request is what I’m asking about.

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:33:28 GMT

Perhaps https://www.narakeet.com/text-to-speech/voice/amy-text-to-speech-voice/

Just alter the text in the box to match the dialogue.

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

olivfry — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:42:38 GMT

Thank you, it doesn’t seem that this works though as it sounds a lot more natural in the website than it does on the answering machine. I’m thinking maybe the one on the answering machine is an older version of it? I can’t seem to find any websites hosting the voice where it sounds exact.

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:19:01 GMT

Bear in mind that on an answering machine there is very little fixed memory space in the firmware, so any recording is likely to be reduced to a low 8 bit sample rate. A better quality would be pointless over a telephony channel.

The Microsoft TTS tool can create 8 bit mono, but does not include the Amy voice, but uses Hazel.

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Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:24:27 GMT

Another tool, which gives lots of voices including Amy.

https://ttstool.com/

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

olivfry — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:26:52 GMT

The closest I have ever gotten to it is https://readloud.net/english/british/5-female-voice-amy.html

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

olivfry — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:47:33 GMT

Has anyone else got any ideas about this?

Re: BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines

olivfry — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:06:54 GMT

I think it’s IVONA 2012, but I can’t find the Amy voice from that period to check.

BT Amy text-to-speech on answering machines FOLLOW-UP

olivfry — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP POST FROM MY PREVIOUS POST

I have still not been able to find a website that hosts the correct version of Amy. Read my original post below for more information. TIA

ORIGINAL POST