speech to text -- I am tired of looking

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Jun 15 20:26:51 UTC 2007


Andrew Jarrett wrote:
> I wish I could give you some more information, but I've never had the
> need to mess around with text-to-speech software.  I have heard some
> buzz about a program named festival, but I think it is more of a
> "back-end" than a "front-end".  However, I did a little bit of
> searching and found that when it is paired with a program called
> "kttsmgr" then it could probably do what you want it to (i.e. it
> should be able to read this email to you).  Like I said, I am not
> familiar with this software, but there probably are more front-ends
> for festival if you don't like kttsmgr.

He's looking for speech-to-text, not text-to-speech.  The former is much
 harder.

Matt Flaschen




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