Hi,

Couple of my friends are also interested in porting TTS onto Firefox OS. I
am cc-ing them (Bhargav, Srikanth).
We need to understand some of the basics of FxOS's native layer. We will
get back to you once we have something.


*-
Cheers
*
*Santosh
*


On 12 October 2013 01:05, Eitan Isaacson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Santosh.
>
> That is a very impressive demo! Our plan is to add more engines going
> forward. Flite might be one of them. I looked into it a few months ago, and
> it did not seem feasible, but I can't remember why..
>
> If you would like to port it to Firefox OS, you should look at what was
> required to get svox/picotts ported. Here are some bugs to look at:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904687
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=863174
>
> If you go the route above, you would be integrating it into Firefox OS's
> native layer. And it would require a lot of coordination. We don't
> currently have a way to introduce 3rd party speech engines in the market.
>
> Cheers,
>  Eitan.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabrice Desré" <[email protected]>
> To: "Santosh K" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Eitan
> Isaacson" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:57:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [b2g] TTS Engine on Firefox OS
>
> Hi Santosh,
>
> On 10/09/2013 11:00 PM, Santosh K wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ported a TTS(Text-to-Speech) engine onto the Firefox OS?
> > We have successfully  ported a customized 'Telugu + English' TTS engine
> on
> > android using the CMU-Flite TTS engine (
> > https://github.com/happyalu/Flite-TTS-Engine-for-Android)
> >
> > I would like to port a TTS engine on Firefox OS too. I need to understand
> > where to start? Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
> >
> > You can find the various TTS demos built by us, here:
> > http://abacus.iiit.ac.in/~kishore/
>
> We have a tts engine used for accessibility purposes (see
>
> https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/media/webspeech/synth/
> )
> based on picotts. I'm cc-ing Eitan that knows this are way better.
>
>         Fabrice
> --
> Fabrice Desré
> b2g team
> Mozilla Corporation
>



-- 
Regards,
Santosh
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