On 09/19/09 06:13, Erik Hofman wrote: > This is a heads up that I'm working on improving the sound system quite > a bit with a few new concepts in mind.
That's a good thing to work on. Thanks for the heads-up. Here's one more thing to think about in this context: text to speech. AFAICT the status is: 1) The existing home-brew TTS system (involving ATC/default.vce and ATC/default.wav) is very limited. It does not claim to handle the general case. It does not even have enough vocabulary to handle an ICAO standard ATIS (with perhaps verrry rare exeptions). It only knows the names of a few airports. 2) There is a documented interface to the Festival TTS system. Alas, the preponderance of the evidence indicates this has not worked in several years. AFAICT all reports of working TTS refer to the home-brew system (item 1 above). I have no opinion on _how_ to implement TTS, whether home-brew, Festival, or other. However, _some_ sort of robust TTS would be extremely valuable. (If this is not obvious, I would be happy to discuss _why_ it is valuable.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
