I may have been too brief in my initial e-mail.
I am looking for something (like festival, espeak, picoTTS, etc...) that
takes text and converts it into audio in real time. I have obviously
found some (like festival) that are in the 13.10 repos, and work well,
and are generally simple. I was mainly wondering if there was something
in the works to incorporate this (like PicoTTS in Android) in the
general Ubuntu Touch OS, and have a central API for apps wanting to
access text to speech, or if I need to package a TTS within the click
app. I am thinking that eventually a TTS will be installed in Ubuntu
Touch as default for things like GPS navigation, and maybe HUD
interaction (like Siri is on iPhone). I know espeak is used by Orca
Screen reader in Ubuntu (though it is much worse sounding than festival,
but may have more language support?). I wonder about this because of
the sheer amount of languages needed to be supported in Ubuntu, as well
as an app that would read text from the device.
Thanks for those links, that looks really exciting, I will check it out
more!
On 10/21/2013 04:08 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 15:53 -0500, Israel wrote:
I'm wondering if there has been any discussion of a TTS (text to speech)
being implemented on Ubuntu Touch, and if so, where could I find any
information. If not, what would be the best place to open an issue for
discussion, or who could/should I contact for more info, or to suggest
this idea?
For HUD we're using Sphinx:
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
Which is part of the overall problem of TTS. It won't do things like
full dictation by itself, there is quite a few other things needed
(but it works for the dataset in HUD well). There is some work on
building something more general purpose with Simon.
http://grasch.net/node/22
It's a big project, if you want to help, I'm sure they'd love people to!
Ted
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