jschall;195353 Wrote: > I searched this topic on the Forums and the Wiki. > > There has been some interest in the past in having SqueezeBox > optionally announce tracks. > > My dear departed CD3O was able to do that (badly) back in 2003. It > couldn't handle "Bruce Cockburn", for example :-) > > Is there no current interest in this feature? Is it too hard to do, > using open-source text-to-speech code? What are the roadblocks? > > I'm no programmer, but I would be hear what is showing on the "Now > Playing" screen while I am listening from another room! > > - Jeff
Someone could probably hack up http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/coredemo.shtml but it would be dependent on that site, which is often "busy". Ideally it'd be better to have something do the conversion locally, however, unless you went with a commerical product it probably wont be that good. I remember way back when Soundblaster cards came with "Dr. Sabatso" or something like that which do text to speech, but it was VERY unnatural sounding... -Greg -- GoCubs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34514 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
