Text to speech - OS agnostic

Ruby
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Hi folks,

I’m interesting in getting some feeling on how best to approach the
matter of converting text (words) into speech.

I am currently coding on a XP platform in a Linux VM.
I’d prefer the solution to work as well under Mac, Linux and Win.
Or at least know that i have gems to use under each OS.

Question is which one?

await your thought’s and suggestions.

dave.

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On 2010-01-07 02:50:38 -0500, Dave L. said:

await your thought’s and suggestions.

dave.

Festival TTS ssems to have pretty good support:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html

And gem tie ins http://festivaltts4r.rubyforge.org/

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Dave L. wrote:

Hi folks,

I’m interesting in getting some feeling on how best to approach the
matter of converting text (words) into speech.

I am currently coding on a XP platform in a Linux VM.
I’d prefer the solution to work as well under Mac, Linux and Win.
Or at least know that i have gems to use under each OS.

Question is which one?

It might be best to write an abstraction layer that wraps the OS’s
native TTS routines in a generic interface.

await your thought’s and suggestions.

dave.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]