Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> Ross Gardler wrote:
>
>> [CC'd to Forrest]
>>
>> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>>
>>> came across
>>>
>>> http://freetts.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> the first demo of cocoon that I ever did in public was a hello world
>>> page in html, pdf, svg and voicexml, with the little merlin dude
>>> speaking 'hello world' to the audience (got a standing ovation for
>>> that!) It always bugged me that I needed an external tool for that
>>> that worked only on windows... but I found this.
>>>
>>> Have no time, but it would be cool if somebody could write a
>>> voicexml->wav serializer using that (it's BSD).
>>
>>
>>
>> This really would be cool. Over on Forrest we have a whiteboard
>> VoiceXML plugin (donated by a GSoC student who did not get an award
>> but still got us started on the plugin, thanks HANAX). This plugin
>> renders any Forrest page as voice XML. Currently it only works with
>> VoiceXML enabled browsers (e.g. Opera on Windows), a serialiser would
>> be great, even better if we can then stream the result.
>
>
>
> There's more to VoiceXML than just text-to-speech.
Yes, you can use voice to navigate a Forrest site using the VoceXML
plugin as well, functionlaity is basic (go to section X, go back a
section, read this part etc.) I plan to use it to make an Toy Library
catalogue available to visually impaired users via VOIP and telephone.
>\You should have a
> look at JVoiceXML [1], a VoiceXML browser that uses Freetts. It's LGPL
> though.
Shame about LGPL, but thanks for the pointer, we failed to find that
when looking for .
Ross
[1] http://jvoicexml.sourceforge.net/
