Text to Voice when save record... RSS

[NinjaTurtle]

Hi,

I am going to develop a RSS page which allow user to read news and voice media as well...

example, whe admin enter a news, it will enter the news detail, when save the news entry, it will save the text into DB and then generate a voice(mp3, wav, or...) file. then allow user to download.

similar like : http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/products/tts_data.html

i need some advise from u guys expertise... or any free or cheaper software to havig this? or using any VML(VoiceXML)???

Thanks.

[ralph l mayo]

It should tell you something that it took AT&T to develop that and not "Joe's Scripts and Stuff." Having said that, PHP's soundex() returns a fairly good representation of single sounds, and you can get stilted results by concatenating audio files of the various basic sounds to form whole phrases.

Problem is, I don't think there's an audience. Blind people have access to much better technology using fairly sophisticated AI techniques to render spoken language, and I can't see the non-handicapped going for the stilted, generation before last Mac-speak dictation when they could just read the article and save some time. I may be completely and utterly wrong here, I certainly have been before, and it is a unique idea, so best of luck.

Apart from soundex() and metaphone() PHP is really about the worst suited popular language to to this task, so you might consider working out an interface with another language's implementation of T2S:
http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+%22text+to+speech%22

[NinjaTurtle]

after i have the get the value, example: Jason ==> J220, then what is the next step???? really dun have idea... :p