embedded text to speech converter

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2011/4/2 Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com>:
> 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
>
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> https://launchpad.net/~bhavi
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The gap between SpeechDispatcher and openMary is not that big
It is why the people from SpeechControl made libopenmary-c++


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