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• ninjin 14y ago
  Neat, once again, emscripten proves useful. I do find it important though to point out the lack of a good open text-to-speech engine. Here is a speech as rendered by tts-api.com (http://goo.gl/PoZc4 http://goo.gl/PoZc4). Now, for speak.js [1], to make a comparison, paste in the first few of the top paragraphs from here [2] and compare the quality between the two. There really is a gap to fill for a good open-source alternative here. But I suspect the main barrier is that there is a large amount of data needed to generate good voices. Still, a worthy target. [1]: I tried to make a URL for this too, but despite the URL looking as if it could take arguments it refused to work, at least for me under Firefox and Chrome. [2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/business/worldbusiness/25iht-24textbush.16463831.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/business/worldbusiness/25i...