Linux text-to-speech (was RE: cox and accessibility)

David A. Sinck plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:58:27 -0700


Festival comes to mind as well as ... something linked to from
festival's site.  :-)

\_ SMTP quoth alandd@mindspring.com on 3/14/2002 13:40 as having spake thusly:
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\_ Here is the google search link:
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\_ http://www.google.com/search?as_q=linux&num=100&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=text+to+speech&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off
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\_ Looks like IBM has their Via Voice technology on Linux and some other players too.
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\_ Interesting... There are many possible uses of text-to-speech other than for the visually impared.  I will be looking at this myself.
\_ 
\_ Alan
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\_ plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote:
\_ In the meantime, does anyone know of good text-to-speech software for
\_ linux? that runs on console, and within X?
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