Hi thomas,

you could maybe modify ESpeak and use it?

Josh

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From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:10 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Raceway was USA game web site?


> Hi Cara,
> As far as Raceway goes there are definitly work arounds about what
> speech system to use, but each has an advantage/disadvantage.
> If I want to completely port Raceway as is from C# .NET to Java there is
> a commercial Sapi package, JSapi, put out by Cloud Garden that supports
> all the usual Sapi engines like the Scansoft voices, Neospeech voices,
> etc. The problem is that it isn't licensed very cheaply, and by using
> the JSapi package from Cloud Garden I have to tie Raceway specificly to
> the Windows os which defeats the purpose of a multiplatform game.
> There is the option of FreeTTS. FreeTTS is a TTS engine written in pure
> Java, for Java applications, but isn't exactly very high quality.
> The final option is to prerecord the speech. Prerecording all the voice
> files using a high quality synth or a human is the best way to make the
> game pplatform independant. However, with prerecorded speech there is
> less possibility of making the game customisable.
>
> Cara Quinn wrote:
>>    Ah Thomas, you can see I've visited the website lately!  lol!
>>
>>    anyway, very cool and I'd forgotten about SAPI as an issue, but I
>> too, would think there's got to be some sort of reasonable work around
>> as you suggest.
>>
>> Smiles,
>>
>
>
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