OT: espeak Symbian port, C plus plus help needed

OT: espeak Symbian port, C plus plus help needed

[Willem van der Walt]

Good day,
As some of you might, like me think it a good idea to have the espeak 
synthesizer available under Symbian, I am asking here.
I have ported espeak to symbian, but without direct playback support.
Actually up till now, it is just the speak program that is ported.  It can 
generate a wave file which I now play with python on symbian.
The next step is to port the library and to get direct speech output so 
that one would be able to use indexing etc from the library.
Where I am out of my depth, is to marry the example code for doing audio 
output on the phone to the similar work done by Willie Walker and Gills 
Casse where they replaced portaudio with code to do the same thing for 
sada 
under Solaris and pulsaudio respectively.

Using the open-c/c++ library under Symbian, the code is supposed to be 
very close to standard POSIX code, but I do not even know enough to 
confirm this personally.
Any help would be appreciated.
Kind regards, Willem


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Re: OT: espeak Symbian port, C plus plus help needed

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I have to admit I know very little about C or C++, so I won't be much 
help in creating audio output code for it. However I would be interested 
in such a port of espeak and so would be prepared to test it on my nokia 
6670 for you.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> Good day,
> As some of you might, like me think it a good idea to have the espeak
> synthesizer available under Symbian, I am asking here.
> I have ported espeak to symbian, but without direct playback support.
> Actually up till now, it is just the speak program that is ported.  It can
> generate a wave file which I now play with python on symbian.
> The next step is to port the library and to get direct speech output so
> that one would be able to use indexing etc from the library.
> Where I am out of my depth, is to marry the example code for doing audio
> output on the phone to the similar work done by Willie Walker and Gills
> Casse where they replaced portaudio with code to do the same thing for
> sada
> under Solaris and pulsaudio respectively.
>
> Using the open-c/c++ library under Symbian, the code is supposed to be
> very close to standard POSIX code, but I do not even know enough to
> confirm this personally.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Kind regards, Willem
>
>
>
>    

Re: OT: espeak Symbian port, C plus plus help needed

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.
The 6670 is a second generation phone, so it won't be able to run espeak.  Support for python and open c didn't happen
until third generation phones.  Symbian version 9.2 or later is needed.

          Kenny

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:31:48PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I have to admit I know very little about C or C++, so I won't be
> much help in creating audio output code for it. However I would be
> interested in such a port of espeak and so would be prepared to test
> it on my nokia 6670 for you.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> >Good day,
> >As some of you might, like me think it a good idea to have the espeak
> >synthesizer available under Symbian, I am asking here.
> >I have ported espeak to symbian, but without direct playback support.
> >Actually up till now, it is just the speak program that is ported.  It can
> >generate a wave file which I now play with python on symbian.
> >The next step is to port the library and to get direct speech output so
> >that one would be able to use indexing etc from the library.
> >Where I am out of my depth, is to marry the example code for doing audio
> >output on the phone to the similar work done by Willie Walker and Gills
> >Casse where they replaced portaudio with code to do the same thing for
> >sada
> >under Solaris and pulsaudio respectively.
> >
> >Using the open-c/c++ library under Symbian, the code is supposed to be
> >very close to standard POSIX code, but I do not even know enough to
> >confirm this personally.
> >Any help would be appreciated.
> >Kind regards, Willem
> >
> >
> >
> 
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