Monthly Archives: July 2016

More choices for TTS engines

Here is a mostly complete list of offline text-to-speech engines I have at my disposal.  I have cleaned up the text somewhat from the last time, so they should be easier to understand.  Let me know what your favorite is in the comments. Espeak is a very robotic, but relatively lightweight engine: Festival is a quirky, […]

Sample TTS output

I’ve got two competing TTS (text-to-speech) engines right now, espeak and festival.  Each will require some tweaking, but here is a very short game fed through each.   Festival:   Espeak:   Let me know what you think in the comments  

GruePhone Lives Again!

Wow, it really has been a while, but improvements in technology have given me an idea of how to improve upon the original Dial-a-Grue phone. The idea is to use a small embedded computer, this time a $9 “chip” computer and actually embed it into a gutted phone.  From there I can use text-to-speech (tts) and […]