It might take some work, but would this engine work?
http://espeak.sourceforge.net
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se] On
Behalf Of Jens Arnold
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:06 AM
To: rockbox@cool.haxx.se
Subject: Re: Tts in rockbox

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@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 Fri May 26 21:37:10 2006