Text-To-Speech on Phones: Nuance Talks

[Michael Whapples]

I think the biggest barrier to creating an open source screenreader for
the symbian phones is the lack of a free synthesiser. mbrola has been
ported, but that version doesn't do full text to speech as it requires
it in a .pho file, and also it is very large for such devices. I wonder
if espeak could be ported, admittedly it will have to output to wave
files and then those played, but it is much better for the system
resources than mbrola.

From
Michael Whapples
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 05:17 -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> If you are going to push commercial screen readers, you should mention
> both.  
> 
> Mobile-speak is also available for the same phones that run talks and it
> is cheaper.  I bought it for only $249 instead of $295.  Mobile-speak
> also supports more software synths than talks.
> 
> http://codefactory.es
> 
>           Kenny
> 
> 
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