On May 29, 4:30 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:10:03 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards > <inva...@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > > > On 2013-05-25, Rakshith Nayak <rnyk1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Always wondered how sound is generated from text. Googling couldn't > > > help. Devs having knowledge about this could provide, the > > > information, Links, URLs or anything that could help. > > > ><Helpful for those who want to dig to basics first before Coding> > > >http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ > >http://code.google.com/p/pyfestival/ > >http://machakux.appspot.com/blog/44003/making_speech_with_python > > I suppose one could go for archaic and complex... > > Obtain a working Amiga computer, install whatever the last Python > version was available pre-built. Then write a server application which > would take text over the net, and feed it to the appropriate Amiga > libraries -- translator and narrator as I recall (one converted plain > text to phoneme codings, the other then converted phonemes to sound, and > could return values for "mouth shape" to sync animation) [history: the > Amiga had text to speech in the late 80s -- it even allowed for > adjusting some formant parameters so one could create pseudo accents].
If venerable history is wanted, there is (always?!) emacs: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ This seems to go back to version 19 of emacs which is (c) mid- nineties -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
