Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:24:15 +0900 From: itojun@itojun.org To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The IMPORTANCE of real time under freebsd. Message-ID: <13696.874646655@itojun.csl.sony.co.jp> In-Reply-To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>'s message of Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:23:32 -0700 (PDT). <Pine.BSF.3.96.970918211859.1124A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970918211859.1124A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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>BTW Anybody know of any good speech recognition HARDWARE (or software, but >I doubt that exists) that could be used for voice control in a medium >sized room i.e.i.e mic hanging from center of ceiling (probably dictionary >based). Also speech synthesis hardware that is dictionary based (with a >female voice preferably) that could be run through a PA system. Just FYI: There's speech synthesis PCMCIA card (yes, we can go out with this!) from Hitachi micro computer co., designed for Japanese speech synthesis. Usage is very simple: just write() Japanese phonetic string into character device, then the card will generate the sound. The driver is ready for merge and I sent to hosokawa-san (it needs to be merged with PAO PCMCIA support) For non-Japanese people: I have never tried, but maybe we can: - Use the card so that it will pronounce English text Dictionary for English word -> Japanese phonetic letter is necessery but if we got this it is simple query-and-replace - generate voice data for English - need more document/whatever from Hitachi... If any of you are interested in getting/beta-testing the driver, pls let me know. The card is not very popular (we must order directly to Hitachi I think), but this may of help for some people. itojun
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