espeak-ng/espeak-ng-ios-app

ESpeak and decTalk

joshknnd1982 opened this issue · 4 comments

joshknnd1982 commented

We now have lots of source code for decTalk tts. Please get in touch with me if you want the decTalk source code and I would like to ask you to port decTalk to IOS. I am also looking for bestSpeech tts by Michael O'Malley and Berkeley speech technologies so hopefully that can also be ported to IOS.

IhorShevchuk commented

Hi @joshknnd1982,
I took a brief look at decTalk and here what is needed to be done in order to begin porting process:

  1. Build decTalk as a library to iOS platform
  2. Wrap it into to Swift Package
  3. Add ability to work asynchronously so that audio levels can be passed back to system while decTalk is synthesising the rest of the text
  4. And most important one is to add SSML support because Apple passes SSML strings to synthesiser and without it, it would be hard to extract raw text and pass it to decTalk.
joshknnd1982 commented

Can you port decTalk to IOS only? or can you also port decTalk to android? and if you cannot port it to android, do you know any developers who would be willing to port it to android also? If not that's all right. Just asking out of curiosity and because I use both IOS and android.

IhorShevchuk commented

I can port decTalk to iOS if there is a need in it there, however my Android knowledge is limited and you would need to find someone else to do so, but again firstly you need to know if there will be users in such a products.
p.s. I think we need to move our discussion to decTalk repository.

djphoenix commented

I think we need to move our discussion to decTalk repository

I totally agree. I have a look on DecTalk and it sounds promising... but this repository is about eSpeak.

Feel free to fork this repo and adjust underlying library (but take care about licensing). If you need an assistance to bring it to AppStore, please contact me with Telegram.