[raspberry-vi] Re: Cepstral voices on a Pi?
- From: "Agent Orange" <agentorange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:07:30 -0000
Thanks Mo, appreciate your thoughts.
Phil
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Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Cepstral voices on a Pi?
Hi.
We considered porting the voices to vinux, but discovered that we would have
to write drivers specific to vinux using the cepstral SDK. Often with these
productz, you would first have to buy the SDK then pay for the voices also,
making the project very expensive. Finally, these voices are very resource
intense, but if there is little else running on the pi you may get away with
it. Also, would the voices run on an arm based device? It may be worth
contacting them if you are anxious to get it running and ask them what they
think.
Good luck and seasons greetings,
Mo.
Agent Orange <agentorange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Hi List,
>
>Someone I know is trying to get a Pi to talk. Not necessarily a full
>function screen reader, but to convert text to speech for a specific
>application. Espeak would have been the best option, but as that
>doesn't seem to be flying right now, they have asked me whether I have
>any thoughts about using Cepstral voices on a Pi:
>
>www.cepstral.com
>
>I don't think I have ever come across these and certainly not in the
>context of a Pi. Having just spent a few minutes on the site, my first
>thought is that this appears to be a commercial product so is likely to
>cost.
>Putting
>cost to one side, I'm not sure how easy it may be to get these voices
>working on the limited hardware provided by a Pi.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Phil
>
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