[twobob]

Originally Posted by Lupines

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I am still working on getting a regular text file to its phonetic form. So please don't post questions asking how to configure this on the kindle to get it to read in other languages. I don't know yet. This is just a first step towards that. Everybody is welcome to help out on the effort.

Thanks,
Lupines.

http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbr....html#phonetic

Looks promising

http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/

Looks interesting

http://archive.debian.net/lenny/armel/eflite/download

Looks very interesting.. EDIT: it was moderately so...

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/a...speak/download

also going to have a look at that one...

root@kindle:/# wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool...03-2_armel.deb

root@kindle:/# dpkg --force-depends -i ./espeak_1.43.03-2_armel.deb

root@kindle:/# apt-get --no-install-recommends -f install

Yep - this one was the winner.

Will look to getting it native then...


root@kindle:/# espeak -X "I am the funkiest kindle in the world" 2> /dev/null

Spoiler:

Found: 'i am' [aIa#m]    0xc0000080/400
Found: 'the' [D@2]    0xc0000200/4
Translate 'funkiest'
  1	f        [f]

  1	u        [V]

  1	n        [n]
 22	nk       [Nk]

118	&) iest (_S3i  [@st]
 36	ie       [I]
  1	i        [I]

Translate 'funky'
  1	f        [f]

  1	u        [V]

  1	n        [n]
 22	nk       [Nk]

 41	&) y (_  [I]
 20	C) y     [I]
  1	y        [j]
 22	y (_     [aI]

Translate 'kindle'
  1	k        [k]

 93	k) in (dl [In]
 78	k) in (d [aIn]
  1	i        [I]

  1	d        [d]

 76	&) le (_ [l]
 95	&C) le (_ [@L]
  1	l        [l]

Found: 'in the' [InD@2]    0xc0000080/0
Translate 'world'
  1	w        [w]

 57	w) or    [3:]
 36	or       [o@]
  1	o        [0]

  1	l        [l]
 20	l (C     [l]

  1	d        [d]

 aIa#m D@2 f'VNkI;@st k'Ind@L InD@2 w'3:ld

Okay. so that would work via debian.

I had trouble ripping the jack libs out of debian.

Probably a native build of that app (without jack and pulseaudio) would go a long to way to bridging the gap you described in the top post.

It exports the phoneme's to STDOUT as I have pictured via the -x option and --phonout="<filename>"

Write output from -x -X commands, and mbrola phoneme data, to this file

And the realtime speech synth would doubtless meet the needs of the casual "make it do something cool!" user also.

That's my thoughts.