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Looking for an open-source Java text-reader (voice)

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EyeOfThe

Senior member
Hi,

I'm learning java by writing a video game. I'd like to find some open source java code I can use for text reading.... and by that I mean I give it the text and it turns it into audio. If there's no such thing I could settle for a program that I can at call from my java app.

Thanks!!!
 
I just saw java has some speech classes, but I'm looking for something I can use instead of writing from scratch. Voice recognition would be a nice plus.

Thanks
 
Unforntunately I don't think there are too many people that sit in their basements writing voice recognition software to give to the world for free 🙂

If I know Sun at all, I'd say they defined a set of interfaces for what a speech recognition system should do so that 3rd party vendors can sell interchangeable implementations for a "best-of-breed" solution... 😛

I think your best option for in game audio is to record what you want yourself and just play them at specific points in the game (just about every game does it this way, if I'm not mistaken).
 
Good luck, dude. I worked for a TTS company a while back. TTS is a hard problem. I listened to a sample of that FreeTTS and it sounded terrible.
 
You'll have to locate some mothballed software files:

ViaVoice_TTS_rtk_5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
ViaVoice_TTS_sdk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm

I guess this one is not abandonware:
Festival
 
Originally posted by: manly
You'll have to locate some mothballed software files:

ViaVoice_TTS_rtk_5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
ViaVoice_TTS_sdk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm

I guess this one is not abandonware:
Festival
Click to expand...

Depending on how old that ViaVoice stuff is, it might be what I worked on. 😀
 
Originally posted by: oboeguy
Originally posted by: manly
You'll have to locate some mothballed software files:

ViaVoice_TTS_rtk_5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
ViaVoice_TTS_sdk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm

I guess this one is not abandonware:
Festival
Click to expand...

Depending on how old that ViaVoice stuff is, it might be what I worked on. 😀
Click to expand...
I believe the ViaVoice for Linux bits are about 3 years old, but IBM pulled their distribution over a year ago.

Where was IBM ViaVoice development based?
 
Originally posted by: manly
Originally posted by: oboeguy
Originally posted by: manly
You'll have to locate some mothballed software files:

ViaVoice_TTS_rtk_5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
ViaVoice_TTS_sdk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm

I guess this one is not abandonware:
Festival
Click to expand...

Depending on how old that ViaVoice stuff is, it might be what I worked on. 😀
Click to expand...
I believe the ViaVoice for Linux bits are about 3 years old, but IBM pulled their distribution over a year ago.

Where was IBM ViaVoice development based?
Click to expand...

There was a small text-to-speech company in NY state I worked for whose TTS engine was licensed to IBM to include in their ViaVoice products. I don't know how long they used our stuff. I worked there like 6-7 years ago.
 
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