Text-to-speech

[Robert Kern]

Charles Hartman wrote:
> Does anyone know of a cross-platform (OSX and Windows at least) library 
> for text-to-speech? I know  there's an OSX API, and probably also for 
> Windows. I know PyTTS exists, but it seems to talk only to the Windows 
> engine. I'd like to write a single Python module to handle this on both 
> platforms, but I guess I'm asking too much -- it's too hardware 
> dependent, I suppose. Any hints?

Googling around a bit, I get

http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd
http://www.festvox.org/festival/
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/

Some of them might be useful as a start.

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Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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