Re: OT: Text to speech engines

[Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu>]

>>>>> "LS" == Leo Spalteholz <leo@spalteholz.ca> writes:

    LS> Hi, This is fairly OT but I'd be interested to hear your ideas
    LS> on this subject.  First a little background information.  I
    LS> may have the opportunity to develop an application that will
    LS> enable quadriplegics and other severely disabled persons to
    LS> communicate by selecting common phrases from a set of icons or
    LS> typing on an onscreen keyboard (the mouse is controlled by eye
    LS> movements).  Of course software such as this already exists
    LS> however it is in my opinion quite crude, very expensive, and
    LS> only runs on windows systems
    LS> (http://www.gusinc.com/speechsystem.html).  The application is
    LS> quite simple, the only thing I need is a decent text to speech
    LS> engine that will process the text generated by my program.  If
    LS> anyone has experience with a (preferrably cross platform) text
    LS> to speech engine or some recommendations I would be very
    LS> grateful.  If no useable cross platform engine is available I
    LS> will have to go with a Windows solution for now as that is a
    LS> requirement for the project.

Festival, an OSS/FS TTS engine, is packaged for Debian. --Joe


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