<div dir="ltr">espeak does not yet work with Hebrew. <br>My biggest problems are that I do not have time or knowledge how to add such support. I have a lot of things that I do not understand in the audio field regardless of voice synthesizing, so I do not know how to add support for such tools.<br>
<br>Anyway, thank you all for the answer, when I'll have some time, even without this specific client, I think to add proper tts support for Hebrew in Linux (now if only I have the source of time ... ;))<br><br>Ido<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Geoff Shang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoff@quitelikely.com">geoff@quitelikely.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Itay Donenhirsch wrote:<br>
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i know of espeak, is there any option to make it talk in hebrew?<br>
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Not yet.<br>
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I wrote to the developer of Espeak to ask him about the possibility.<br>
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The problem is of course that written Hebrew does not include many of the vowel sounds, which means that a text-to-speech engine needs to either make educated guesses about which sounds to insert when, or have a big word dictionary ... or both.<br>
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I did a bit of digging around for research materials which might be use to develop a text-to-phoneme translator for use with Espeak, but my ability to do this is somewhat limited by the fact that I do not speak much Hebrew myself, and being Blind I am not able to read any Hebrew with any of the text-to-speech solutions that I have. So my searching has been limited to english-language pages.<br>
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I wrote to Jonathan a couple of years back. I don't know if he's done any work on it since, I suspect not.<br>
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There would be considerable interest in Espeak being able to speak Hebrew, not only from the Linux community but from the blind community as a whole, since Windows solutions are quite expensive and it would be good to have a free option.<br>
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