Re: [orca-list] gnu-speach?

[Tony Baechler <tony baechler net>]

I'm coming in late on this, but yes, it's a speech synthesizer and I've 
created a demo for it:

http://classicradio.us/iso/gnuspeech_gpl.mp3

Yes, it can be used now with Speech Dispatcher.  You would use the generic 
module or write a wrapper script.  Based on their example in the INSTALL 
file, something like this should work:

./gnuspeech_sa -c /usr/share/gnuspeech/data/en -p /tmp/params.txt -o 
/tmp/out.wav "Hello world."

I spent quite a bit of time compiling and testing this.  The Mac version is 
more complete and includes the graphical apps, the accessibility of which I 
have no idea.  The standalone version has very limited functionality by 
comparison, but it does work.  I suspect the Mac version sounds better, but 
I don't know and I don't have a Mac.  I will share my 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04.3 
compiled binaries if anyone wants them.  If you want them, write to the 
address in my signature.  Currently, it's English only and has no variants.

On 10/22/2015 3:00 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> This sounds really interesting. However, looking at the link you posted,
> I'm not sure if it's a speech synthesizer or some kind of program to
> generate speech phonemes based on a person's speech. This would also
> need to be packaged in distros to be meaningfully useful. If this isn't
> the case now it can of course be fixed if this gets used. The steps
> would be: 1, a speech-dispatcher module would need to be written to
> support gnuspeech. 2: some minor code might need to be added to orca if
> the standard speech-dispatcher API calls aren't enough to support it
> fully, for example, if it has anything like espeak varients. 3: it would
> need to be packaged up in popular distros like ubuntu, fedora, arch,e
> tc. Once this is done it should be possible to use it with orca.-- 

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