Re: Server-Side Speech --- New Project Discussion (PHP/C++ Developers?)

Okay, anyone interested in joining the project can subscribe to the official mailing list (sounds fancy!) set up for the project at:

       http://isawit.com/mailman/listinfo/php-vox

I'm looking forward to getting into discussions and debates, and getting the project off the ground. On 4/27/07, Tijnema ! <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/27/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: 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.... Is it 100% C++? that could be a serious problem, AFAIK, unless we are creating a shared library of course, because from that point, the language doesn't matter (not sure about static, but i believe it is the same) And what about other TTS engines? FreeTTS? Festival-lite? Tijnema On 4/27/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> 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@sperling.com> 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 -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com

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