Hello Jan,
speechd seems to be a very good project, and I'm already dreaming about
his integration with Tux Droid !
Acapela TTS is a big problem for us for months as the library isn't
compatible with 64bits OS. Moreover, it's not an open-source library,
and is not really in the Tux Droid philosophy.
In January or something, we started a new project called 'tuxosl-ose', a
fork of 'tuxosl' without the Acapela interface. The goal was to be able
to create new interfaces for open-source TTS, such as festival.
Unfortunately, we don't had time to work on it, and nothing has been
done for now.
Speechd is another approach of the problem, and this approach looks me
very fine. This will maybe be a good opportunity for us to finalizing
and to (definitively) solve the TTS 64bits problems.
I'll read the documentation about the project, try to get it working and
test it. We have also to analyze this new approach, and think about the
best way to fix this problem.
Anyway, thank you very much for this mail, and I hope we'll work with
you in a close future.
Paul Rathgeb
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 10:15 +0200, Jan Buchal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> one of our project is called Speech Dispatcher
> http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd. Speech Dispatcher works as a
> client/server and communicates trough TCP with python or java bindings.
> I think that it will be not so difficult to replace Acapela tts by
> speech dispatcher for Linux for now for someone who knows very well the
> TuxDroid API of course. This solution can bring more advantages:
>
> - TuxDroid could use different TTS like Festival, Flite, Espeak etc
> - TuxDroid could speak in different languages and with different
> voices in the same time, see SSIP protocol of Speech Dispatcher
>
>
> If anyone finds time for it we would like to help him regarding Speech
> Dispatcher know-how.
>
> Have a nice day
>
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