Hello M. Hartman,
It's a very big opportunity for me to find someone that both is a poet and
knows something about programming.
First, please excuse my bad english ; I'm a french canadian.
I am dreaming to write a software to help french poets to write strict
rigourous classical poetry. Since calssical poetry is somewhat mathematical,
a lot of tasks can be automatised :
1- Counting the number of syllabs ("pied" in french) in a verse
2- Checking the rimes ; determining the strength of a rime
3- Checking compliance of a poem to a fixed pre-determined classical form (in
french, we have distique, tercet, quatrain, quintain, sixain, huitain,
dizain, triolet, vilanelle, rondeau, rondel, ballade, chant royal, sonnet,
etc.)
4- Propose a synonym that will fit in a verse, i.e. with the right amount of
syllabs
5- Suggest a missing word or expression in a verse by applying the Shannon
text generation principle
First, do you think it may be a useful tool ?
What other features you think can make it usefull for a poet ?
The first task of cutting sentences into syllabs (phonetically of course, not
typographically) is already done. It's been difficult to get it right and to
make it guess correctly with a very very high percentage.
I can very well imagine that the next task is even more difficult. I need to
translate text into phonems. Do you know some software that does it ? I guess
that voice synthetisers that translates written text into spoken text must
first translate the text into phonems. Right ? Do you know if there some way
that I can re-use some sub-modules from these projects that will translate
text into phonems ?
Regards,
Francis Girard
Le dimanche 20 Mars 2005 04:40, Charles Hartman a écrit :
> Does anyone know of a cross-platform (OSX and Windows at least) library
> for text-to-speech? I know there's an OSX API, and probably also for
> Windows. I know PyTTS exists, but it seems to talk only to the Windows
> engine. I'd like to write a single Python module to handle this on both
> platforms, but I guess I'm asking too much -- it's too hardware
> dependent, I suppose. Any hints?
>
> Charles Hartman
> Professor of English, Poet in Residence
> http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar
> http://villex.blogspot.com
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