espeak does not yet work with Hebrew. My biggest problems are that I do not have time or knowledge how to add such support. I have a lot of things that I do not understand in the audio field regardless of voice synthesizing, so I do not know how to add support for such tools.
Anyway, thank you all for the answer, when I'll have some time, even without this specific client, I think to add proper tts support for Hebrew in Linux (now if only I have the source of time ... ;)) Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/ On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Itay Donenhirsch wrote: > > i know of espeak, is there any option to make it talk in hebrew? >> > > Not yet. > > I wrote to the developer of Espeak to ask him about the possibility. > > The problem is of course that written Hebrew does not include many of the > vowel sounds, which means that a text-to-speech engine needs to either make > educated guesses about which sounds to insert when, or have a big word > dictionary ... or both. > > I did a bit of digging around for research materials which might be use to > develop a text-to-phoneme translator for use with Espeak, but my ability to > do this is somewhat limited by the fact that I do not speak much Hebrew > myself, and being Blind I am not able to read any Hebrew with any of the > text-to-speech solutions that I have. So my searching has been limited to > english-language pages. > > I wrote to Jonathan a couple of years back. I don't know if he's done any > work on it since, I suspect not. > > There would be considerable interest in Espeak being able to speak Hebrew, > not only from the Linux community but from the blind community as a whole, > since Windows solutions are quite expensive and it would be good to have a > free option. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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