On 21 January 2012 20:36, Alan W Black <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
Very impressive work. The example I tried was very audible. Great use of the Ben's little speaker! John _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
