Dear Perlmonks,

we have developed a personalized text-to-speech program, for patients with ALS/MND or other illnesses in which they are in danger of losing their voice. By recording their individual voices for around 3 hours in an early stage of their illness we can produce a tts program with which they can later express whatever they want in their own previous voice !

The program is written mainly in PERL with a TCL/TK front end, which works mainly as an Editor for the inputted sentences. It works on Win32 operating System and can be combined with most on-screen-keyboards and head/eye-tracking mouse devices.

As it is an individual solution, it was not conceived as a SAPI voice... but some Firms just allow SAPI voices as outputs in their devices. In order to make my tts program compatible with these devices, I wonder if somebody can help me to develop a PERL front end, that will look to the outside world as one more SAPI voice, but will just transfer the wanted sentence (and perhaps some parameters like the sound volume) to my "editor" program and be processed and outputted as speech by my tts program.

Thanks in advance for your help !!
Dr. Eduardo Mendel (Dr. in Physics)

mendel@uni-oldenburg.de
Tel.: 0049-441-72261
www.meine-eigene-Stimme.de (German Version)
www.meine-eigene-Stimme.de/Dilo.html (Spanish Version)
The English is still being developed... help welcomed !

In reply to SAPI just as frontend ? by Anonymous Monk

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