Text to Speech?

[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]

Is TTS do-able?

It might be.

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.

Anyone working on this?

Not currently

  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!