[tuxdroid-user] Speech software suite: TTS & Recognition

[Florent T. <ft...@gm...>]

*********** Speech recognition:

* Option 1: Xvoice + IBM ViaVoice

I found interesting stuff. I don't know why, but sphinx really seems
hard to use: it almost killed the xvoice project. So, the best option
for voice recognition / command launching seems to be the old Xvoice,
using IBM's viavoice (which isn't available anymore @ IBM); the
following link is a viavoice & xvoice tutorial

http://taint.org/wk/ViaVoiceModernLinux (2004 last updated)

+ It's supposed to work quite good
- old, unsupported, no future, non-free

* Option 2: sphinx

Considering tux's microphone performance, our best chance is with PocketSphinx
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/pocketsphinx/

There's an package / ipkg already in openembedded
http://www.openembedded.org/viewmtn/revision.psp?id=5369901ff675d4c926113d856ce9da4c8c12fed0

*********************** Text to speech

* Option 1: stick with tuxdroid's team choice (acapela)

* Option 2: use the simple & efficient espeak

I really was surprised by the plug-n-play functionality, and it's
light resource footprint. http://espeak.sourceforge.net

I may switch to this one.

We may want to let the possibility to choose between several packages
(i.e. no hard acapela-specific integration). Is it possible do keep it
modular?