While I love voice synthesis, I think that you'd gain "legend" status
only if you had Allison (or, I hesitate to say, some other voice
talent) do the dramatic readings. People respond so much better to
real recordings - I tend to use synthesis only where it is impossible
to have pre-recorded phrases, and since Zork is pretty much entirely
"canned"....
Do you have any idea how many text blocks there are in Zork? In
sentences, kilobytes, or...? She charges like $120 USD per hour (I
think) but she can fit a LOT of talking into an hour if someone else
is willing to do the editing to split up the continuous recording
into blobs. I'd put $150 or so towards the project if you decide to
do it, but I can't put any time...
You should ping Gerd Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at LumenVox to get
some demo licenses for voice recognition, and convince him ;-) that
this is a good beta of the Asterisk/LumenVox partnership, because I
think it would be an excellent example of how useful a good voice
recognition engine would be in general applications. If you make it
avaialble at no cost, then people would essentially be trial-ing the
voice recognition engine and seeing how nice it is for themselves in
an Asterisk system.
JT
That's not far off from my actual plans... I've had a server donated to
me for the project and have had a couple of CLEC's offer incoming lines,
as well as had a developer license for Cepstral's TTS engine donated.
Another feature I want to add is meetme-like capabilities so that you can
talk with your fellow players when you're in the same room, maybe even
connect it up to a mud or a moo or something.
If anyone feels like collaborating, feel free to contact me off-list by
dropping the -asterisk from my address.
Cheers,
spd
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, John Todd wrote:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/05/play_zork_by_phone.html
Let me preface this idea with one comment: I don't have the time to
do this - I don't even have time to eat these days. But someone out
there has the cycles to do this... and it would be very cool.
OK, so now Zork is attached to Asterisk, but using the
less-than-clear Festival engine. There are beta tests of the
LumenVox speech recognition engine out there which tie directly into
Asterisk. Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) would almost
CERTAINLY do a great dramatic reading of all of the text blocks
within Zork. I see an excellent opportunity for a demo server on
some CLEC who would love to get some $ by opening up a few DIDs to a
huge recip comp traffic load. Even if it's just available via IAX2
or SIP, this would be one of those "legends of the Net" in the next
few years...
JT
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