[Cialug] Text to speech

[Nathan C. Smith]

Sphinx Is about all I have found for free speech to text. 

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh More [mailto:morej at alliancetechnologies.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:54 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Text to speech
> 
> Check out  http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> 
> It works pretty well, but if you want natural-sounding 
> speech, you need to use alternate voice files.
> 
> Festival is also available as rpms/debs for the more common distros.
> 
> 
> As an aside, does anyone here have familiarity with the reverse? 
> Speech to Text?  I'm looking for solutions that will run on 
> Linux.  For this application, non-open source is acceptable, 
> but not preferred.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> --
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>  515-245-7701
> 
> 
> >>> Chris Lanpher <chris at wearybee.com> 08/09/06 5:50 PM >>>
> I am trying to set up a text to speech machine for a mostly 
> blind nephew. I was trying to set up a desktop system similar 
> to what Jaws for windows does. Anyone here have
> 
> any guidance or suggestions
> on where I might look?
> Thanks
> Chris
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