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Text to Speech?

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foo10019:
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?

GodEater:

--- Quote from: foo10019 on March 26, 2009, 03:07:01 PM ---Is TTS do-able?
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It might be.


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


--- Quote ---Anyone working on this?

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Not currently


--- Quote ---  Can the CPU drive this app in real time?

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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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