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geneven is offline geneven
2011-05-02 , 07:29
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
It has nothing to do with Linux because Linux is no one thing (at least, not in common parlance.)


Text to speech is different from speech to text (voice recognition.) TTS has been a solved problem for a while, and there are numerous solutions in Linux. Speech to text is much more difficult and requires more specialized knowledge that doesn't have much presence or interest in the various open source communities.

Heck there's a whole article on it at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_...ition_in_Linux
Heck, thanks for explaining the difference between text to speech and speech to text. I do own several copies of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, including the very pricey Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional, and I also own several versions of TextAloud, the best Windows text to speech program, so I do have an idea of the difference. I've been using them for maybe ten years, and I have purchased the best Linux versions of Text to Speech software, which is why I say that they suck. I've also played with Festival and the like. It is always possible that great Linux software that does this stuff has sprung up relatively recently; I hope so, but I doubt it.

It's amazing to me that you pointed to the Wikipedia article on speech recognition in Linux but forgot to mention that it confirms what I said: it sucks in Linux.

And as for text to speech, can anyone point to good voices in Linux? Mostly, the answer I have received when asking year after year is "no".
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