You might want to play around with this a little: Luciano Notarfrancesco has ported rsynth to Squeak some time ago, and now I've found some time to make a plugin primitive for the most compute-intensive part. Download http://www.httg.de/~hmm/squeak/SpeechSynthesis.zip, compile the plugin (sorry it's not there yet, I will fix that soon) and use cmd-t to let it speak selected text.
Have fun! Hans-Martin
The port of rsynth is indeed impressive -- thank you to Luciano and Hans-Martin!
Does anybody out there have any plans for porting some kind of speech *input* framework? I know that there was a Smalltalk interface to the Chant speech recognizer, and an interface to Sphinx a while back...
Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
The port of rsynth is indeed impressive -- thank you to Luciano and Hans-Martin!
Does anybody out there have any plans for porting some kind of speech *input* framework? I know that there was a Smalltalk interface to the Chant speech recognizer, and an interface to Sphinx a while back...
Stephen,
If you hear anything about this that doesn't show up on the mailing list, please let me know. For the last couple of years, I have dreamed of putting a speech recognition engine into the Smalltalk IDE. Then we can call it "JustTalk" or in the case of Squeak, maybe "Speak".
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