hebrew text to speech

[ik]

espeak does not yet work with Hebrew.
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.

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 ... ;))

Ido

http://ik.homelinux.org/


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Itay Donenhirsch wrote:
>
>  i know of espeak, is there any option to make it talk in hebrew?
>>
>
> Not yet.
>
> I wrote to the developer of Espeak to ask him about the possibility.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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