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and actually for the Word Wizard app, I can't release a single app with all languages because it uses a text to speech engine and each voice is 90M ! In additio

• danielharan 14y ago
  How many words do you have in total? Is it possible to record most or some of them? 90M is a lot; maybe we could work something out? :)
  • PierreA 14y ago
    text to speech engines do not work like this. They built the pronunciations of any words on the fly using their phonetic sound library. so 90M is for the sound library I think
    • danielharan 14y ago
      If you had 2-300 words, it would be much cheaper to just record the words. Otherwise, if it's still just dictionary words, it's just a lot easier if the dictionary already breaks down the word into phonemes, and the speech engine then collates the phoneme sounds together. You're not actually using most of the features of a text-to-speech engine, so I don't see why you'd have to pay for the full price tag. So: how many words? And what's a price that would make you want to buy a license to a simpler engine? :)
• danielharan 14y ago
  Looked it up some more; most of the difficulty of speech-to-text engines are text normalization and converting words into sounds. Since you only have dictionary words, you might be able to use a phonetic dictionary. Wikipedia and discussions with another techie friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges