GoCubs wrote: > 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... >
You don't have to sell your soul to IBM. Festival is not that bad, free and independent or third party websites. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
