Hi Dark, Quote apparently, there are certain properties of the windows asqi text that can be exploited rather nicely in creating speech synths, which probably wouldn't happen with other operating systems, ----- not without some major investment in ocr technology anyway. End quote
Not true. It is true that most Windows based TTS engines are based off the Microsoft Sapi 5 technology which is a core part of Windows, but TTS engines are not always specific to Windows. For example, the Eloquence speech engine, also known as Viavoice, is supported on Linux as well, and can be run under FreeBSD with Linux emulation running. The Dectalk Access software is also supported under Linux. Both a 4.6 and 5.0 version is available for Linux users. Certainly some changes were made to support the operating system, but it is multiplatform. Sun Micro, the makers of Java, have written a Java based Speech API, called JSAPI, and there is a free speech engine for Java called FreeTTS. It ships with the Sun Java desktop for Solaris, and works with gnopernicus and Orca. It is 100% platform independant, and shows that writing TTS engines can be designed absolutely platform free. The only problem with FreeTTS is the speech is very robotic sounding, and is not at all human. Now, all of this said the consols themselves need to have some sort of TTS engine incorperated into the consols operating system. For Microsoft I suspect it would be no big deal since the XBox already has a Windows type os on it, and it uses DirectX and other commonWindows technologies. They would just need to port Sapi over. As for the Play Station I have heard the PS3 uses some sort of modified Linux os on it. That would make it likely or possible to incorperate something like festival or flite into the operating system for speech. Not great speech mind you, but some sort of speech. As for Nintendo's latest consol or any other consols I don't have detailed specs on them so can't really say how easy or hard incorperating a TTS engine into it would be. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
