Re: [orca-list] ORCA improvements

[Alejandro Leiva <aleiva emergya es>]

On 05/10/10 15:46, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 05:03:18PM CEST, Bill Cox wrote:
> > I'll look at the problem on 64-bit Ubuntu Lucid.  However, over the
> > next several months I would love to help out in an effort to make
> > various voices easier to select, install and use.  We've got a guy
> > working on OpenSAPI to make Microsoft voices available.  I'd love to
> > have a single accessible application where users could select any of
> > the free voices, or even buy the non-free voices.  One problem is that
> > non-free voices all have custom ways to buy and install, and it
> > depends on your flavor of OS.  Could we work with Gilles, Cepstral,
> > and the others to have a clearing-house application which talks to
> > their web sites and helps out with buying, installing, and maintaining
> > voices?  We could even allow users to preview voices to help determine
> > which ones they actually would like to buy.  This sort of app is
> > exactly what's missing in open-source land for the blind.
>
> While I haven't thought of how we could standardise on buying these proprietary speech synthesizers, I have 
> certainly been thinking about how we can make it easier for users to install and use the speech synthesizer 
> they have bought. I have already given the design of this feature much thought, and it will require the 
> participation of all proprietary speech synthesizer vendors, as well as one or two open source projects like 
> OpenTTS/speech-dispatcher.
>
> I have yet to completely document my thoughts and publish them, but I hope to do that very shortly. If tnere 
> is enough demand, I can see about writing them up and publishing them sooner.
>
> Luke

Hi Luke,

	We're doing some research of how we could integrate as many speech 
synthesizers platform as we can. Then, your thoughts about would be so 
nice for us and community.

	I suspect that Voxin people will collaborate with that goal, maybe 
member in this community can help in get in touch with other propietaty 
speech synthesizers.

Thanks!

cheers,
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