Which famous voices can Jolla hire for differentiated polyglot TTS on Sailfish? [duplicate]

asked 2015-03-19 12:50:56 +0300

rdmo
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updated 2015-05-09 14:04:08 +0300

tl;dr For synthetic speech production, there is Festvox. There's also the possibility of harveting audio in a Fair-use way, the same way as, or better than the robot character Bumblebee talks in some of the Transformers movies. It might be a lot more fun, too. Rupal Patel, a real-life implementation champion, has a link, below.

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For example, speech synthesis - also discussed on the older page of the declared, if not actually identical duplicate - can improve the value of the Clock and overall phone UI: to hear a custom reminder or recorded sounds brings significant enhancement, gains for end users and those around them.

It seems spd-saycovers fewer languages, as it is not so long in the tooth seen as Festvox, seen at http://festvox.org/. I also link to Festvox above.

Relevant, established, free, open-source, compatible software:

• http://festvox.org/

Related mathematics:

• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_Models

Related presentations:

• http://www.ted.com/talks/rupal_patel_synthetic_voices_as_unique_as_fingerprints

Related together Questions:

• https://together.jolla.com/question/51564/text-to-speech-tts-service-and-api/
• https://together.jolla.com/question/73399/what-dbus-send-commands-control-clock-calendar-alarm-settings/
• https://together.jolla.com/question/80563/how-can-about-pages-add-value/

A related question, not yet useful to branch off to a separate conversation: what code could Jolla put out or adopt to allow fair-use audio snippet-harvesting from online material, to simulate vocal tones?

Other uses:

• Calendar;
• Game instructions;
• Demo walk-through of any/every phone (or app) feature or use case;
• App ranking by accessibility and completeness;
• Help that doesn't visually get in the way of the thing it is supposed to be helping with;

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