Re: [orca-list] Incorporating Acapella Voices or Infovox iVox

["Bohdan R. Rau" <ethanak polip com>]

W dniu 2012-11-06 17:10, Alex Midence napisaÅ(a):
> Hate to be the bearer of ill tidings but, last I heard this was
> simply not possible. Open Sapi is supposed to be pretty buggy.

Open Sapi is not buggy - it's simple only idea how to use Windows SAPI 
voices in Linux, and it's forgotten by author.
Some time ago I published this information, I'll repeat again:

1) I prepared patch to Open Sapi to work natively in Linux (in fact, 
only change was the synthesized wave is not played on Windows audio 
system, but it's returned to calling Linux process).
2) I wrote speech-dispatcher module Milvona (sorry, only for Polish 
language) working with Orca and Ivona SAPI voice. It's rather slow, but 
Ivona has some limitations and probably with other synthesizers speed 
would be acceptable.

Conclusion:

1) It's possible to have access to Windows voices in Linux (in fact, we 
need only one Windows C++ programmer - I tried to create Windows part in 
Python, but there was overkill - about 80 MB of libraries to run program 
which fits in 50 lines)

2) It's possible to use SAPI voices in Orca (in fact we need only one 
Linux programmer familiar with speech-dispatcher).

If you can find this Windows programmer - I can help with creating 
Linux part. Sorry - I have practically no experience with Windows.

ethanak
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