Hello Travis, thanks for your considerations. Actually, the advantage of ESpeak as a synthesiser is mainly for non-English speakers like me, because of the vast range of languages supported by it. I also think that any solution would be better than no solution, including generation of wave files.
Anyways, thanks for willing to help. Cheers Cleverson Em 20/1/2012 12:25, Travis Siegel escreveu: > I've not looked at espeak for dos, but I do seem to recall there was > another dos screen reader called tiny talk. I don't recall if it > came with source, but if the author of that program could be found, > and if source is available, perhaps it could be added to the distro. > It could use the pc speaker as well as sound cards (if I remember > correctly) It's been a really long time since I've fiddled with tiny > talk, (many many years) but since I've gotten permission to develop > provox, I could try to implement something for wav files. I don't > think it would be very usable, though it certainly would/could work > in a pinch if nothing else was available. I don't (currently) have a > pure dos machine to work on, though given another month or two, this > may be fixed, (moving bites) and I can certainly look into this at > that point. Paired with porting provox away from a86 (something I'm > lothe to do for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that a86 > is such an excellent product) I don't know how much work I can do on > this, but I'll try to remember to look at it when I have something to > work with later. > Of course, if anyone else wants to work on it, feel free, I'm by no > means monopolizing provox, anyone who wants to can work with it. > (hmm, that reminds me, I probably should get it posted on sourceforge > just for completness). > Anyway, generation of wav files for speech is a slow process, I doubt > it would work as well as synthetic speech, but it's worth checking > into anyhow, perhaps with today's faster processors, it may not be as > slow and unresponsive as it used to be. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
