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Text to Speech In R

8 messages · Alex Zhang, R. Michael Weylandt, Jeff Newmiller +2 more

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Why do you think this is something R should be able to do?
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Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:

            
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On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:
On Mac OS X, you can access the system faculties to do so with
system("say hello") or what have you.

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Please don't shout.

Speech synthesis is associated in my mind with sound generation, which is rather platform-specific. R is a platform agnostic research tool. R can be interfaced with many kinds of external libraries, so many things are possible. However, they aren't necessarily simple, and hiding operating system differences can take a lot of work. Your expectation that this be "simple" is what seems unwarranted to me.
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Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:

            
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Integrating question and my 2 cents.

Use R2WD to print your output in word file 
Use TTS facility of windows to do the speech 

Never implemented myself but may work

Best Regards,

Bhupendrasinh Thakre
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On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:

            
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Pizza can be ordered from R (fortune 66), why not tts?

Under Debian, I can tts by apt-get install the tts engine espeak and
then use the simple system call under R

        
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote: