9 messages in com.googlegroups.android-challengeRe: Text2Speech for Android| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| l1ghtm4n | 17 Jan 2008 20:06 | |
| Nanard | 18 Jan 2008 00:35 | |
| l1ghtm4n | 18 Jan 2008 14:23 | |
| Nanard | 19 Jan 2008 08:44 | |
| l1ghtm4n | 22 Jan 2008 05:44 | |
| Kayhan Yuksel | 17 Feb 2008 04:58 | |
| Nanard | 18 Feb 2008 06:45 | |
| Nanard | 18 Feb 2008 06:46 | |
| Kayhan Yuksel | 18 Feb 2008 12:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Text2Speech for Android |
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| From: | Nanard (bseg...@free.fr) |
| Date: | 01/19/2008 08:44:42 AM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.android-challenge |
I have tried for around 10 hours to copy/paste the source of TTS (and all required lib.) into my Android project in Eclipse. Without success. When I had a compiling error : I put the line in comment :-)
I didn't had enough time to finish, and I've put more & more lines in comment ! And, anyway FreeTTS is just here for testing, the voice quality is very bad, compared to what is available on commercial GPS. Maybe we could contact FreeTTS team/developper and ask them to work with us in the port to Android & in having a better voice quality (more human, more choices of 'people'). I don't have time (and knowledge) to debug FreeTTS.
I belive (in those newsgroup & android pages) Google will release TTS in next SDK/emulator version. So, I decided to spend more time on my application, and wait until Google release TTS with their emulator.
Anyways, with or without you, I (and other in thoses challenge) realy need TTS.
Good luck !
On 18 jan, 23:23, l1ghtm4n <l1gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
To be honest, I hadn't quite decided whether or not to enter it in the challenge. My motivation for posting the unfinished project was to find interested developers who want to help, then it's possible to enter the challenge as a team. Most importantly, though, is to have a useful project rather than letting it grow stale due to my limited time dedication.
As far as license, the FreeTTS code on which this is based has a very open license, and I may just adopt that same license. To be determined. As for now, the code is on my site and a mention in some credits would be nice.
On Jan 18, 3:36 am, Nanard <bseg...@free.fr> wrote:
Great ! I'll go to your site when I have time.
Do you plan to 'give' your code. In exchange, we just write your name in our 'About' dialog box ?
Or is your Speech project : a project for the challenge ? If so, you'd better keep the code for yourself (even if I **need** speach for my own project).
On 18 jan, 05:06, l1ghtm4n <l1gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've started a text-to-speech project for Android. Maybe there are some other developers interested in helping out?
From my site, where source is available (http://www.l1ghtm4n.com/? q=node/16):
"It's been about a month since I first started this project. I wanted to get familiar with Google Android by taking some existing Java code and porting it to the Android platform. I was also hoping to provide something actually useful in the Android environment. Hopefully this Text2Speech service is. It is entirely derived from FreeTTS.
Here I provide the code in hopes that some screen apps can make use of this service on the device. Examples could be an alarm which reads time, weather, and RSS feeds. Or an email reader.
I worked hard getting it to compile but ran into a bug in the Android SDK InputStream implementation. That's where it currently stands. If I