Hi Jason,
On Apr 7, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Jason White wrote:
Dalmazio Brisinda <[email protected]> wrote:
The text to speech daemon has been partially ported to OS X. By
"partially" I mean given text it generates synthesized output, but
there
is currently no intonation (something I intend to remedy shortly) or
other more sophisticated features. It's also accessible via OS X
services.
The ability to silence speech very quickly and start speaking a new
message is
a particularly important additional feature that would be required for
accessibility applications.
Also desirable is the capacity to track which word is currently
being spoken
in text already submitted by the application. Control over such
matters as the
handling of punctuation characters (whether to announce them or
simply process
them as influences upon the pausing and intonation) would need to be
controllable via the API, as would speech rate and any other tunable
parameters.
You may be interested to check out the paper that describes the
"Touch 'n Talk" system that Dalmazio mentioned in an earlier email.
The direct link is:
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/papers/ieee-touch-n-talk-1988.pdf
it is an item on my university web site to which you can also navigate.
I wish it were all up and working right now. It was very
disappointing to lose it, along with all the other stuff we had
developed, when NeXT went belly up but getting it up again is one of
the goals towards which we are headed. It would meet (and hopefully
exceed) the requirements you have started to outline.
[snip]
All good wishes.
david
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