[gcompris-devel] About Art4Apps library

[Isabelle Duston]

I am using acapela
http://www.acapela-group.com/

I am sure that there is a copyright issue with them, but yesterday I came across a free one, and if you use google translate, for some language it has the speaker button. I think google would not care....

The thing is that is because the recording is done directly from the computer and not via a microphone, the quality is actually pretty good and very consistent. 

In most case, I think it might be good enough... and it will be more wildly available within a few years. I came across it while I bought an app  with a Turkish dictionary which had all the audio, so I contacted the guy to ask him if he was willing to share his audio because he had like 20 languages (ithinkdiff.net) and he told me that it was all artificially generated through some cloud software...

I think it is definitely something we should look into.

Isabelle

On Jan 12, 2014, at 6:43 AM, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net> wrote:

> Le 12/01/2014 01:00, Isabelle Duston a écrit :
>> Recently I have tried the artificial "text to speach" softwares to generate audio.... the result is amazing, and much easier than getting real recording.
>> 
>> There might be some copyright issue, so I did upload them on art4apps, but may it is some thing to explore...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is an interesting approach. The tests I did several years ago was not very good. As we are talking education, it is important to have a good pronunciation. Also I found out that not all languages are available and on the same software the quality may vary between languages.
> 
> But yes I am confident that the quality of these software have improved. We also have to check licensing issues.
> 
> Could you share with us which software you tested?
> 
> Bruno.