Re: [Slashcode-general] Audio reader (speech synthesis) on Slashdot

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On May 2, 2007, at 3:33 AM, Yang wrote:

> I just saw this linked to from the top of the Slashdot homepage.
>
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/slashdot/audio
>
> (I had never seen this before because usually I'm logged into  
> Slashdot.)
>
> I'm highly interested in the speech synthesis tool that's being used
> to generate this audio. This is probably the best quality output I've
> heard - the only one that I've ever found tolerable. I'm wondering if
> anybody on Slashcode might know what the tool is (otherwise, where
> should I ask?).

Use the code, luke ;) If you grep the current code for 'audio' you'll  
see this:

cepstral audio.

My guess is they are using this: http://www.cepstral.com/support/   
and maybe something from here http://search.cpan.org/search? 
query=cepstral&mode=all

Pretty cool idea huh? I think, from an accessibility standpoint this  
is huge. My question is whether there is any intention for this audio  
generating code to be included in the standard slashcode codebase, or  
if this is a slashdot-only feature.

  Shane