Text-to-Speech

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Brucey(Posted 2010) [#1]
Hey ho... didn't really know where to ask this...

Can anyone recommend an open-source, non GPL, Text-To-Speech library for LINUX please?

I'm currently in the process of writing a BlitzMax "Speech" module which I hope will share a common API for all platforms.
I currently have it running on Mac (native) and Windows (SAPI). It'd be nice to have it work on Linux too :-)

Thanks in advance for your assistance, folks!

ps. I'd just like to say, that working out how to call COM in BlitzMax is a nightmare in hell, but amazingly, after I got it to compile, it all worked the first time I ran the example app!


markcw(Posted 2010) [#2]
I could only find Festival, everything else was GPL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System


Brucey(Posted 2010) [#3]
There's not much out there, is there? Tis a shame...

The Festival API isn't very useful either... :
festival_say_text()


But perhaps that's all you are meant do with these things :-p