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    Jonas Häggqvist
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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by Chelo Sacristán - 2008-02-11
Last edited by Jonas Häggqvist - 2008-08-06

FS#8589 - Allow to choose Loquendo and ViaVoice TTS

It would be useful to change the configure and voice.pl files in order to allow the user to choose also the Loquendo and ViaVoice TTS

   configure.patch (2.1 KiB)
   voice.pl.patch (0.7 KiB)
Chelo Sacristán commented on 2008-02-12 07:56

Loquendo (http://www.loquendo.com) and ViaVoice (http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/) are two text-to-speech engines. They have a great quality, but, unfortunatily, they are not GPL. In order to use them to create sounds (for example the menu messages for blind people) you need the SDK and need an special licence.

'loquendo-text2file' and 'ttsynth_say' commands are referenced in the configure patch. They are to commands that send text to a sound file. Anyone can get ttsynth_say from the ViaVoice SDK. Loquendo-text2file it's a little application that i have done. If somebody need it, i can send him the source file, but rememeber that you need the Loquendo SDK in order to compile and use it.

Chelo Sacristán commented on 2008-02-12 09:11

Another important issue is remember that ViaVoice doesn't work with utf-8. So, you must save the lang file in a compatible format with ViaVoice (ie 8859)

Steve Bavin commented on 2008-02-12 09:46

Hi Chelo,

If you're using Windows, I believe that ViaVoice uses SAPI underneath their own front end, so those should work with the current code.

e.g. http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/att_desktop.php

Chelo Sacristán commented on 2008-02-12 10:17
Hi Steve,
 Yes, you are right. I forgot Windows (smile). My "habitual environment" is Linux and i use Linux SDKs to generate sound files.
 ViaVoice SDK for Linux is very old, and it doesn't manage correctly utf-8 strings.
 Sorry and thanks for the explanation
Chelo Sacristán commented on 2008-02-12 12:02
Hi Steve,
 Yes, you are right. I forgot Windows (smile). My "habitual environment" is Linux and i use Linux SDKs to generate sound files.
 ViaVoice SDK for Linux is very old, and it doesn't manage correctly utf-8 strings.
 Sorry and thanks for the explanation
Jonas Häggqvist commented on 2008-02-12 15:50

This looks pretty reasonable, although I think we should add charset conversion to voice.pl and introduce a VOICE_CHARSET define or something like that, which will be ignored if empty, but causes voice.pl to convert to the specified charset. I think sapi_voice.vbs might already be doing charset conversion, but I'm not sure.

Jonas Häggqvist commented on 2008-08-07 14:39

With Jens Arnold's change yesterday, this should now be possible. I'll look into finally committing this one later today.

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