Re: Making gnome speak

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

This is not a voice recognition program, but a speach synthesis program
(ie it talks)
I think there is a program by the name of gvoice that uses ibm's via voice
for voice recognition if you are intrested in gnome listening to you.

--Ben
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Roy Bettle wrote:

> 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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