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Re: [kidsgames] kids programs



On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 segfault@hardline.org wrote:

-->Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 21:57:47 -0500
-->From: segfault@hardline.org
-->To: sjbaker1@airmail.net, kidsgames@smluc.org
-->Subject: Re: [kidsgames] kids programs
-->
-->Steve Baker wrote:
-->> 
-->> segfault@hardline.org wrote:
-->> >
-->> > Ahh, excellent.. nice to see someone else is coding as well :) Yes,
-->> > actually.. I'm working on an Interactive Storybook program with book
-->> > authoring tools (using GTK). It's basically a glorified picture book
-->> > with little sprites that animate when you click them, and a bit of
-->> > sound. Text shows in the bottom 1/3 (roughly) of the window, picture in
-->> > the top half.
-->> >
-->> > Current status is available at http://hardline.org/ for the curious :)
-->> 
-->> Cool!  That's the kind of basic application we need.
-->> 
-->> One of the cool things that some of those things do is to highlight
-->> the words on the screen as the audio reads them out.
-->
-->Well.. I hadn't planned on text-to-speech in version 1.0, but it's
-->certainly worth investigating. Anyone know of a good open source text to
-->speech engine; preferably one that doesn't require phonetic spelling or
-->anything?

CMU's SPHINX *may* be useful here, I don't know for sure, they have a
project on sourceforge.

Would love it if it worked.

-- 
Jeff Waddell
jeff@smluc.org

Kids Games Project Coordinator
main website at http://smluc.org/SIA/kidsgames/


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