Hello, I was wondering if anybody would care to philosophize on whether the "Speech Dispatcher" warrants some treatment in the BLFS book. I see "FreeTTS-1.2.2" alludes to Flite -> Festival and "Orca-3.6.3" to Speech Dispatcher, so the basics would be there. Or, maybe not.
-------------- Some more or less valuable background on my interest in the subject. First off, as a disclaimer, I'm not much interested in speech recognition nor synthesis (I was once into DECtalk - see Google, Stephen Hawking, etc.). HOWEVER, I've become keenly interested in "Speech Dispatcher" for a couple of reasons. 1. Chrome is increasingly heavy on Speech, and being well aware of the old saying, "As Goes Google, So Goes the Nation", that got my full attention (note, the nature of the "Nation" is not specified - could be Egypt, for example, or any other area). Here in the video, an example of Google's new Speech capabilities shows how a Linux programmer could E-mail dad, there are no more excuses for his dad not sending him more money more often; all that pleading without using the keyboard (nor Skype): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qRolXPWqCSo#! 2. I've been in the habit of compiling chrome from sources every week or so (in practical terms that means every thousand builds or so: for example, chrome was at 179019 on Jan. 27; today I've compiled 180156). To compile at all, chrome badly needs some speech software, "libspeechd-dev", including the "Speech Dispatcher" (with its so-called "libspeechd.h" file) residing somewhere in some Ubuntu and/or Debian database and which require complicated and tiresome acrobatics to extract and process. Thanks, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
