[Kde-accessibility] Nice KTTS, but without TTS.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:46:40AM EST, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> BTW, there is another synth available called ethos (sp?) which I plan to try 
> to support soon.

I am not quite up to scratch with KDE's TTS sytem, but do you plan on supporting
software synths such as the DECtalk, and Cepstral at all?

> It seems to me that the larger issue is language support.  Festival seems to 
> support the largest number of languages, followed by mbrola, but that isn't 
> saying much.  Last I saw, mbrola only supports German and English.  So effort 
> will be needed to either enhance these existing synthesis engines, or someone 
> will have to step up to the plate and develop another synth for KDE.  That's 
> a massive effort, I think, so it probably won't happen anytime soon.

I am quite sure Cepstral is available in several languages as well.

Luke