Has anyone had any experience with festival on Haiku? I had a program called talkbox running on a very early version, but I can't get it to run anymore.
I know someone has built espeak, but I am not sure of what state the port is in.
Festival and Flite (Festival Lite) are both already ported and licence wise they are better fit for haiku, but we need still need someone to port festvox (http://festvox.org/).
Once this is finished, we can connect to them to TalkBox and SpeakIt.
The espeak port doesn't have native sound output, so currently it can only generate wav files.
I had a look at TalkBox but IIRC the license of the old BeOS release did not allow me o make changes to it. With your agreement as the original author I can try to debug this further and help you in getting it to run again.
It would be great to have TalkBox going, as we have so many gaps in our application ecosystem and it would help to fill in some of those gaps.
Other operating systems have text to speech services that provide self-voicing for other apps (like what Google Text-to-Speech does on Andriod), but most other operating systems also have accessibility focused screen readers that connect to that service (think Apple VoiceOver or Google TalkBack).
During the last GCI Scottmc came up with the idea of creating a text to speech (data stream) translator that could -for example- convert a .txt file into a .wav file on the fly.
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Re: text-to-speech
I know someone has built espeak, but I am not sure of what state the port is in.
Festival and Flite (Festival Lite) are both already ported and licence wise they are better fit for haiku, but we need still need someone to port festvox (http://festvox.org/).
Once this is finished, we can connect to them to TalkBox and SpeakIt.
Build recipes:
https://bitbucket.org/haikuports/haikuports/src/18188335c655/app-accessi...
https://bitbucket.org/haikuports/haikuports/src/40f1d04622d8/app-accessi...
Re: text-to-speech
I had a look at TalkBox but IIRC the license of the old BeOS release did not allow me o make changes to it. With your agreement as the original author I can try to debug this further and help you in getting it to run again.
Re: text-to-speech
It would be great to have TalkBox going, as we have so many gaps in our application ecosystem and it would help to fill in some of those gaps.
Other operating systems have text to speech services that provide self-voicing for other apps (like what Google Text-to-Speech does on Andriod), but most other operating systems also have accessibility focused screen readers that connect to that service (think Apple VoiceOver or Google TalkBack).
During the last GCI Scottmc came up with the idea of creating a text to speech (data stream) translator that could -for example- convert a .txt file into a .wav file on the fly.