Even beyond the scope of what this small project will be, I was thinking
(for once!) that it probably will not be too horribly difficult to
incorporate some code into PHP itself that would allow functions such as
text2wav(), et al. After all, the Festival TTS engine itself, which we'll
be using as a foundation (and first floor even), is already written in C++,
so hopefully back-porting it to PHP's native C language core won't prove to
be too much of a nightmare.
Just a thought....
On 4/27/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's what I'm going to try to do, Tedd. I'll post updates
throughout the day to include the new mailing list address and such (so
we're not flooding the PHP list with stuff about a specific project) and
other relevant information.
On 4/27/07, tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> At 3:53 PM -0400 4/26/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> > Anyone who's interested in jumping on, let me know. We may not
> create a
> >PHP-based TTS system, but we can do the next best thing. Besides,
> >everything has to start somewhere!
>
> Daniel:
>
> But of course, you can count me in -- after all, I started this thread.
>
> If you can get the project to the point were I can upload something
> to my site that can generate a sound file from text, I'll take it
> from there.
>
> The point of all this is to provide a simple way for "civilians" to
> have their sites speak.
>
> I certainly can do all the documentation and design/write the
> software that will make it easy for the end user to use -- that's not
> a problem. The problem is having the text-to-sound routines being
> autonomous and free from requiring the user to seek assistance from
> their host for installation.
>
> If you can get it to that, this project is doable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
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