embedded text to speech converter

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Alan Bell <
alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:

>  On 02/04/11 08:07, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> I am working for a company called mindtree and developing assistive
> technology for cerebral palsy affected people as a part of my job with the
> company[1]. I am presently developing a low cost product with the team
> members on porting tts software on a tablet which runs ubuntu. So I needed
> to know that is there any TTS software which runs on ubuntu on a embedded
> platform preferably based on QT
>
> Waiting for your comments and responses,
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> [1] http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article1487056.ece
>
> --
> Bhavani Shankar
> Ubuntu Developer       |  www.ubuntu.com
> https://launchpad.net/~bhavi
>
> Hi Bhavani,
>
> the speech dispatcher framework is used to give a consistent API to several
> text to speech engines, from a command line you can run
> $  spd-say "hello world"
> and it should speak that using the espeak engine which is included by
> default. This is a bit of a mechanical voice but it does not use a lot of
> resources. There are better quality voices around, openMary is one of the
> best I have found. That one lacks a speech dispatcher plugin at the moment
> though.
>
> Alan.
>
>
Hi Alan,

Thanks for your reply but one question I have which may sound silly, Is it
portable to arm cortex without any issues?

Regards and Thanks again for the reply

-- 
Bhavani Shankar
Ubuntu Developer       |  www.ubuntu.com
https://launchpad.net/~bhavi
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