embedded text to speech converter

[Jude DaShiell]

I think hard core text is identical to command line interface without gdm 
or xorg running.On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Alan Bell <
> alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:
> 
> >  On 02/04/11 08:07, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> >
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I am working for a company called mindtree and developing assistive
> > technology for cerebral palsy affected people as a part of my job with the
> > company[1]. I am presently developing a low cost product with the team
> > members on porting tts software on a tablet which runs ubuntu. So I needed
> > to know that is there any TTS software which runs on ubuntu on a embedded
> > platform preferably based on QT
> >
> > Waiting for your comments and responses,
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > [1] http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article1487056.ece
> >
> > --
> > Bhavani Shankar
> > Ubuntu Developer       |  www.ubuntu.com
> > https://launchpad.net/~bhavi
> >
> > Hi Bhavani,
> >
> > the speech dispatcher framework is used to give a consistent API to several
> > text to speech engines, from a command line you can run
> > $  spd-say "hello world"
> > and it should speak that using the espeak engine which is included by
> > default. This is a bit of a mechanical voice but it does not use a lot of
> > resources. There are better quality voices around, openMary is one of the
> > best I have found. That one lacks a speech dispatcher plugin at the moment
> > though.
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> >
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Thanks for your reply but one question I have which may sound silly, Is it
> portable to arm cortex without any issues?
> 
> Regards and Thanks again for the reply
> 
>