Re: [Freedos-devel] About ESpeak and Provox

[Cleverson C. U. <cle...@ya...>]

Hello Travis, thanks for your considerations. Actually, the advantage of 
ESpeak as a synthesiser is mainly for non-English speakers like me, 
because of the vast range of languages supported by it. I also think 
that any solution would be better than no solution, including generation 
of wave files.

Anyways, thanks for willing to help.
Cheers
Cleverson

Em 20/1/2012 12:25, Travis Siegel escreveu:
> I've not looked at espeak for dos, but I do seem to recall there was
> another dos screen reader called tiny talk.  I don't recall if it
> came with source, but if the author of that program could be found,
> and if source is available, perhaps it could be added to the distro.
> It could use the pc speaker as well as sound cards (if I remember
> correctly) It's been a really long time since I've fiddled with tiny
> talk, (many many years) but since I've gotten permission to develop
> provox, I could try to implement something for wav files.  I don't
> think it would be very usable, though it certainly would/could work
> in a pinch if nothing else was available.  I don't (currently) have a
> pure dos machine to work on, though given another month or two, this
> may be fixed, (moving bites) and I can certainly look into this at
> that point.  Paired with porting provox away from a86 (something I'm
> lothe to do for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that a86
> is such an excellent product) I don't know how much work I can do on
> this, but I'll try to remember to look at it when I have something to
> work with later.
> Of course, if anyone else wants to work on it, feel free, I'm by no
> means monopolizing provox, anyone who wants to can work with it.
> (hmm, that reminds me, I probably should get it posted on sourceforge
> just for completness).
> Anyway, generation of wav files for speech is a slow process, I doubt
> it would work as well as synthetic speech, but it's worth checking
> into anyhow, perhaps with today's faster processors, it may not be as
> slow and unresponsive as it used to be.
>
>
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