Re: [pygame] Sound to String

[Laura Creighton <lac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In a message of Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:25:53 CST, Luke Paireepinart writes:
>Ian Mallett wrote:
>> You could always record the sound you want to play, but actually 
>> rendering sound from text might be difficult.  If anyone knows, I'd 
>> like to know too.
>Rendering sound is a pretty common operation called Text-to-Speech.  I'm 
>sure you could find an open-source C library for this and wrap it with 
>ctypes.  If there isn't one, someone needs to start one immediately.
>If anyone takes up wrapping this, let me know, cause I'm interested 
>too.  Also, if you don't know how to wrap it but you find a suitable 
>library let me know as well.
>Also it's quite possible there's already a Python library for TTS.
>I haven't done any research into TTS in about 5 years.

The University of North Carolina wrote one.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/doc/pytts/

Laura