Embedded Windows CE 5.0 Text To Speech Synthesis Kit using Labx86 SBC

Embedded Windows CE SAPI 5.0 TTS Developers Kit is your  complete Embedded Speech Synthesis or Text To Speech Circuit Solution for Development of Speech Synthesis System at Electronics level. The design is based on Festival TTS and is Ported to Windows CE/Pocket PC/Smart Phone/ Symbian OS for Nokia Series 80 and above. With a memory overhead of 1 MB - for one sentence narration, the engine very well fits the needs of developers looking for porting highly advanced research of Festival TTS to the embedded world. 

Shipped Hardware Kit Includes: PC/104  VGA - AGP /Res: 1,280x1,024 true colors LAN - Realtek 10/100 Mbps Audio - AC97 Flash Disk - PQI DiskOnModule  SOC -  CPU 466 MHz Real Time Clock with Lithium Battery Labx86 Single Board Computer  Dimensions 3.5' x 3.7' Weight: 112g 128 MB RAM Voltage : +5V (@920 MA) Windows CE 5.0/CE 4.2 Speech Development Software Printed Manual of API's SAPI - Interface Samples External Electronic Circuit Samples for  Biometrics for User Identification Speaker Verification with passwords Mobile Data Security Chat/Login Vehicular Systems Commands for Security Porting International Languages Connectors and screw drivers.

Festival TTS enables you to create production level speech synthesis software with following tests (please read relevant copyright notices):

• Tools

  • Available : A complete multi-lingual speech synthesis workbench off research

  • Ported to Embedded : Edinburgh Speech Tools Library

  • Ported Open DSP Library : libsnd.dll

  • CMUdict -- pronunciation dictionary

  • Ported

    • OpenVXI -- VoiceXML browser

    • SALT browser - finally online!

    • Audio Databases -- AN4, Microphone array, etc

• Advised TTS for Dictionary Resource:

  • The DICT Development Group: Clients for the RFC 2229 dictionary protocol.

  • Encyclopedia Britannica: Just like the twenty-book set, but it fits in your web browser.

  • Hypertext Webster Gateway: Search engine spanning multiple dictionaries.

  • IEEE Keywords: List of approved IEEE keywords for indexing publications.

  • Merriam-Webster Online: Perhaps the best on-line dictionary available.

  • Roget's Thesaurus: The all-in-one desktop reference - search the web, a dictionary, and Roget's Thesaurus.

• Directories possible

  • 555-1212: look up a telephone area code.

  • AnyWho: look up any address by it's telephone number.

  • CEOExpress: highly informational site catering to business professionals.

  • MapQuest: get directions anywhere in the US.

  • United States Postal Service: look up a zip code.

• General Databases

  • CMU ARCTIC, 4 single speaker speech databases with around 1200 phonetically balanced utterances.

  • CMU FAF, 107 paragraphs (15,000 words) of single speaker monologues with interesting prosody. Basic of Aesop's fables and country descriptions in the CIA world fact book.

  • CMU SIN, speech in noise: speech recorded while noise is playing in the speakers ears (and when not).

  • CSTR US KED timit University of Edinburgh's male US TIMIT, 452 phonetically balanced utterances.

  Limited Domain Databases

  • Telling the time

  • The current weather (in US)

  • Communicator dialog

  Diphone Databases

  • CMU US KAL diphone

  • CSTR UK RAB diphone

  MBROLA voices and binaries 

  • Check out these MBROLA projects wide range of pre-built diphone databases for many languages and binaries for the mbrola program itself for many platforms.

    • MBROLA page in Belgium with cute http front end for copying.