>>>>> "LS" == Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LS> Hi, This is fairly OT but I'd be interested to hear your ideas
LS> on this subject. First a little background information. I
LS> may have the opportunity to develop an application that will
LS> enable quadriplegics and other severely disabled persons to
LS> communicate by selecting common phrases from a set of icons or
LS> typing on an onscreen keyboard (the mouse is controlled by eye
LS> movements). Of course software such as this already exists
LS> however it is in my opinion quite crude, very expensive, and
LS> only runs on windows systems
LS> (http://www.gusinc.com/speechsystem.html). The application is
LS> quite simple, the only thing I need is a decent text to speech
LS> engine that will process the text generated by my program. If
LS> anyone has experience with a (preferrably cross platform) text
LS> to speech engine or some recommendations I would be very
LS> grateful. If no useable cross platform engine is available I
LS> will have to go with a Windows solution for now as that is a
LS> requirement for the project.
Festival, an OSS/FS TTS engine, is packaged for Debian. --Joe
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