Not only that but the Espeak voices are quite frankly orrible. I think
they're even worse thanthe old Echo II. At least I could understand that
one.
But thou must!
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:04 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Text Verses TTS Output
Hi Shaun,
Sure it would be possible to include ESpeak into the games directly,
but as I've already said I do think the end user should be able to
choose what speech output system they use. There are a couple of
different Python APIs available for TTS output and it would make
little sense to use ESpeak when PyTTSX, for example, supports Sapi5,
ESpeak, and NS Speech which are three options right there and is
cross-platform.
Ryan told me about another API, I can't remember the name of it at the
moment, but I tested it and it is better than PyTTSX. The point is
that good alternatives exist and if I do decide to add TTS support to
the games it will be something like that and will give the end user
some choice what synth they use.
As far as text menus they would be a standard text menu like this.
n. New Game
l. Load Game
s. Program Settings
x. Exit Game
To start a new game you would press the n key followed by enter. You
couldn't up or down arrow through the menu like in a Windows app as
that would require a keyboard event which requires a GUI application.
Cheers!
On 10/17/12, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
hmmm, text is simple.
I wander if you can use at least for windows on the graphical side
the espeak dll like nvda is doing.
espeak is opensource and if that can be used as an internal synth all
over the place that could work.
Ofcause there will be the disadvantage that you won't be able to
switch synths at all to anything however I have used nvda with the
internal synth and have never bothered with sapi or anything.
could the text menus still use the same keys like in windows.
More importantly though, I know richard disteno wrote his games like
you say with sfx and text and its ok.
if text is simplest then I'll go for text.
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