Projects

FreeSWITCH

FreeSWITCH is a scalable open source cross-platform telephony platform designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media. It was created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. FreeSWITCH also provides a ... [More] stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications can be developed using a wide range of free tools. [Less]

open-sapi

This project aims to create a tool that allows any OS that will run WINE to harness the features provided by the Microsoft SAPI text to speech (TTS) system. This project uses a client server architecture to allow for single server multiple clients . This can be setup in any number of ... [More] configurations and combinations to provide high quality speech to users. The features of the speech system are accessible through a command line interface. This project aims to bring a wider variety of speech engines and more languages than are currently available in Linux to date. A side project has been started to help improve the Rockbox utility speech generation by allowing the use of SAPI speech engines in Windows, Mac OS and Linux extending the features that are currently available. [Less]

QXIP

Development bits and hacks from QXIP Team. QXiP (Quick-SIP) is a free, open SIP and iNUM Video VoIP Network.

txt2mp3mac

RequirementsMac OS X 10.2.2 or newer PurposeThis is an applescript application that converts a given text file to mp3. Useful for creating audiobooks from ebooks, listening to lecture notes on the go, etc. It employs the default Mac OS X speech synthesizer for text-to-speech and a bundled universal ... [More] binary of LAME v3.98 for mp3 conversion. ImplementationThe default Mac OS X speech synthesizer will generate uncompressed AIFF files that can get rather large if the given text file is long (ex. a book). To avoid this, the applescript processes each paragraph in the text individually: reading a given paragraph to AIFF, immediately converting to a temporary mp3 file and deleting the AIFF file before moving on to reading the next paragraph. After all paragraphs are read, the temporary mp3 files [Less]

FestivalTTS for Ruby

Make your Ruby Strings talk!

eSpeak

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer. It uses a formant synthesis method, providing many languages in a small size.

pyspeech

speech.pyspeech.py is a Python module that provides a clean interface to Windows's voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities. It's very easy to use within a program that needs to listen for specific phrases or general speech, or that needs to speak. It is available on PyPI at ... [More] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/speech/ . Questions? You can contact Michael Gundlach, the developer, at gundlach at gmail. Or, just file a bug under "Issues" above. Example codeHere's a very simple program that repeats whatever it hears you say, until you say "turn off". import speech while True: phrase = speech.input() speech.say("You said %s" % phrase) if phrase == "turn off": breakspeech.input() in the above example blocks the program until it hears you. Below is the same examp [Less]

WinTriangle

WinTriangle is a specialized RTF word processor capable of displaying and voicing conventional text and the symbols commonly used in math and scientific expressions permitting virtually any math or scientific expression to be expressed in a linear form. The goal of WinTriangle is to provide a common ... [More] format usable by sighted and blind people. WinTriangle completes the loop permitting essentially total written communication of scientific information between sighted and blind people.WinTriangle is a computer application and computer literacy is required of both the blind and sighted users to use it.No knowledge of braille is required.The application is distributed with extensive online documentation and tutorials to make the learning curve to use this application small. [Less]

lecturer

Lecturer is an eBook reader for portable devices that not only displays the text in an easy-to-read font with adjustable margins and spacing, but is also able to read it out loud! The speech output code uses the Loquendo TTS system installed on recent TomTom Go mobile GPS navigation units. ... [More] Developed for the TomTom Go 730, it should also work on 930 models. While the text-to-speech component is closely tied to that platform, the plain text viewer is easily ported to any system with a Linux framebuffer device or SDL. Installation and usage [Less]

aa-tts

Aa-TTS -For Roman language Text To Speech (TTS) engines words are mapped to phonetic engine. But for all Brahmic script Indian languages, TTS engine can be made based on concatenative speech synthesis where every letter of word can be directly mapped to it's sound.As, Many Indian languages ... [More] have same letter set in both vowels and consonants with exception to few languages,giving the advantage of generalizing TTS engine to all Indian languages. Aa-TTS is all about making a common TTS for all Indian languages understanding their common patterns. This project is started in DAIICT in 2005 where it has been implemented and tested for Telugu in academic setting with taking very few voice samplings.We intend to take very large number of voice samplings and make a generic engine which can translate text for all Brahimic family of scripts into contextual speech. [Less]