<OT>Opera does leading edge development

[Alan Jackson]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:25:07 -0600
Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:

> Harry G wrote:
> > http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040323/D81G64Q80.html
> > 
> > Pretty cool.
> > 
> > Just my $.023 worth.
> 
> Any idea where we can get a ViaVoice SDK for linux?  I had some really fun 
> applications under OS/2 that used the SDK.  Worked great.  I checked IBM and 
> Scansoft but can't seem to find the product.  (I guess I need my son to look....)
> 

Take a look at the misterhouse list. They support both Windoze and Linux,
and do both voice synthesis and recognition. They often discuss various
products.

http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365

For voice synthesis I use flite from CMU. flite_time has a most pleasant
Belfast accent - sounds just like a friend I have from there. A simple
cron job can have your machine tell you the time on the hour.

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