Bard Storyteller 0.5
http://festvox.org/bard/
Bard Storyteller is a text reader. Bard not only allows a user to read
books, but can also read books to a user using text-to-speech.
Bard Storyteller is free software, distributed under a BSD-like license.
Bard depends on CMU Flite (cmuflite.org) for both some general C
utilities and for synthesis itself. Bard is targeted at small portable
devices such as smart phones, not so smart phones and offline devices.
It uses libsdl (and libsdl-ttf) to display and interact with the user.
see http://festvox.org/bard/README for more generic details, and full
source.
Bard was written specifically with the Nanonote as the target machine,
because I wanted an offline book reader and I wanted to have better
speech synthesis on the device. There is an Nanonote package available from
http://festvox.org/bard/bard_0.5-1_xburst.ipk
Copy it to you device and run
opkg install bard_0.5-1_xburst.ipk
There are actually only three files in it which get installed
/usr/local/bin/bard
/usr/share/gmenu2x/sections/applications/bard
/usr/share/gmenu2x/skins/Default/icons/Bard32.png
Its not clear to me if packages should be installing themselves as apps
for gmenu2x, let me know if this is not the convention.
Although this is a fully functional text reader with text to speech
support it is very early in its development. Let me know what you think
and what you want in such a program.
Things currently on the desired list:
We are working on other synthesis voices to make them fast enough
Audio quality is still an issue, its not as clean as it should be
Smooth scrolling
Screen blanking when speaking or not being used
Other text formats: epub, prc, rtf, html, pdf
Search
Better treatment of text formats (with and without newlines), find chapters
do some font size/boldness stuff
Support for more platforms
(Cleaner) Support for cross compilation
Alan
Alan W Black email: [email protected]
Language Technologies Institute http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
Carnegie Mellon University tel: +1-412-268-6299
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15213, USA. fax: +1-412-268-6298
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