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Offline foo10019

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Text to Speech?
« on: March 26, 2009, 03:07:01 PM »
Is TTS do-able?

Drop some text files into a directory and have the device read the text in real time?  This would be an amazing application.

I've seen a couple of posts discussing some particular TTS technologies, but it doesn't look like they went anywhere.

Anyone working on this?  Can the CPU drive this app in real time?
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Offline GodEater

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Re: Text to Speech?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2009, 04:01:25 AM »
Quote from: foo10019 on March 26, 2009, 03:07:01 PM
Is TTS do-able?

It might be.

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I've seen a couple of posts discussing some particular TTS technologies, but it doesn't look like they went anywhere.

Most of the previous discussions were probably around licensing issues rather than the technology. I believe we've solved those now, and could possibly reimplement espeak as part of rockbox without GPL issues now - but it's still a great deal of work.

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Anyone working on this?

Not currently

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  Can the CPU drive this app in real time?

We don't know yet. Probably the Gigabeat could do this - as to other DAPS, well, it will be interesting to see!
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