Re: Making gnome speak

[Roy Bettle <rbettle criterion-group com>]

This sounds an awful lot like "Dragon Naturally Speaking" for the Open
Source world.  I, for one, would think that this would be an excellent
addition to GNOME.  We have worked with many law practices in an attempt to
get Dragon/Windoze to function properly and have been continually frustrated
with the results.

A STABLE voice-recognition option from the Open Source community would
virtually guarantee market share.

RAB


Ricardo Fernández Pascual wrote:

>     I have downloaded the festival speech synthesis system
> (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html) and I've found it very
> interesting. I can speak in British or American English, Spanish and
> Welsh. Some other languages are coming  (Mexican Spanish, German and
> others which I don't remember).
>     The interesting feature for gnome is that it can work as a server,
> synthesizing requests from any client. The example client is very small
> (about 5k stripped). So I have thought that it would be very easy to add
> support to gnome-sound to synthesize text using festival. I would be an
> option and it wouldn't add any new dependencies to gnome, it would just
> test if a server is running and communicate with it.
>     Think in the possibilities: any gnome program would be able to speak
> just calling some gnome_say(gchar *text) function. Balsa (or whatever
> gnome mail client) could say "you have an email" with the only cost of a
> function call, and then start reading it aloud...
>
>     So what do you think?
> --
> Ricardo Fernández Pascual
> ricardoF@nettaxi.com
> Murcia. España.
>
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Roy Bettle
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