Having the aibo robot read to you – Sony ERS-7M3 User Manual

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Sound reproduced by the AIBO

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Entertainment Robot robot itself

may be picked up and interpreted as a voice command. To prevent
this, you should avoid using words that are listed in “Words
understood by the AIBO

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Entertainment Robot” (page 96).

The entered text is registered under “Voice Synthesis”.

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What is a voice synthesis (text-to-speech) engine?

A voice synthesis engine (also called text-to-speech engine) is a
special piece of software that transforms text data into audible
speech.

Microsoft

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Sam is an English-language text-to-speech engine that

comes standard with Windows XP.

Having the AIBO robot read to you

1

From the media list, select “Voice Synthesis”,
and click the

(Play) button.

The AIBO robot reads the text.

1

Select “Voice
Synthesis”.

2

Select the
text to
read.

3

Click here.

How are you?

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