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Article #9723Speech Synthetisiser for iPaQ running Linux
From: Latyr Jean-Luc FAYE
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:27
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:27
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Hi all First I apolodize for the cross post ! My Master's Project this summer is : Web Accessibility for Visual Impear Users. I will have to design a speech synthesiser with EmacSpeak+Festival on an Ipaq running under Linux. From the answers I got from my first post, here are another setof questions raised ! Thanks a lot for you support. The Ipaq I will be using is the last one H3660 (I think) that has 64 Mo of memory. As the aim of the project is visual impear users, I will also use a keyboard for iPaQ. The keyboard is : Targus Stowaway Keyboard for the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC ***I am constrained to the use of FREE OPEN SOURCE softwares*** For this reason, I have chosen to install Linux+Emacs+EmacSpeak+Festival on the iPaQ. Is it a good choice beside the problem of floating point calculation ? What would be the choice ? I want to know wich Linux distribution for iPaQ is the best. I want as well to know if this distribution include a support of the keyboard. Can I install a distribution "Lambda" of Linux on the iPaQ, then add some extra packtages from an distribution "Omega" to my iPaQ ? Is there a special version of Debian targeted to iPaQ ? Where can I find it ? Some of the replies I got from my first post outline the fact that Festival as most of the speech processing tool software use floating point calculation. The IpaQ ARM processor are not able to perform this kind of calculation. So a significant effort may be requiered to port. Is it the case as well with rsynth ? Does anybody knows any speech synthetisiser usable under Linux, free and open source that is not using floating point calculation ? I have been told that there are precompiled arm items on Debian (Emacs, EmacSpeak, Festival). Has anybody ever try them or has them actually working on a PDA (ideally an iPaQ) ? Once again thanks a lot in advance for your help ! Regards --- Latyr Jean-Luc FAYE http://faye.cjb.net
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