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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Tts in rockboxRe: Tts in rockbox
From: Jens Arnold <arnold-j_at_t-online.de>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:06:14 +0200 On 26.05.2006, Mark wrote: > None of the current targets are powerful enough to do > understandable TTS in realtime. This is imho not true. All our targets should have enough processing power to run realtime TTS. A plain Amiga 500 (7MHz MC68000, 512KB of RAM) was able to do it in the 80s, with a narrator.device of ~64KB and a translator.library of ~13KB. (Note: These are enhanced versions - the original AmigaOS 1.3 versions were probably still smaller) The biggest hurdle on archos was the inability to play PCM samples - but that's possible now thanks to the PCM codec. The real challenging task now would be to actually write a compact, efficient, opensource TTS engine, preferably supporting more than one language. > On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:39:15 +0100, Juan Hernandez > <juanh_at_cox.net> wrote: >> Hello, I am blind, and would like to contribute to the >> rockbox project. >> I am wanting to write code for tts (Text to Speech) support >> in RB, right >> now, the voices idea works really well, but what if a blind >> user gets >> into >> an area that doesn't speak? I'd like to work on this. >> If any one has ideas on this please let me know. Regards, Jens Received on 2006-05-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |