MWSpeaker
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| Version: | 1.0 |
| Author: | Jeffrey Clement |
| Status: | Retired |
The worst speech synthesis software ever. You provide a phrase and MWSpeaker looks up each word on Merriam-Websters online dictionary, downloads the corresponding pronounciation, and plays them in sequence.
Project Description
Speech synthesis as bad as it gets...
M-W Speaker takes a phrase (no punctuation please), takes each work, looks it up on the Meriam Webster website, downloads the sound file, and then, once it has sound files for each word in the phrase, plays them all back to back. The result is something that resembles the sentence with any proper names and words not considered proper english words removed. This process is pretty slow since each word has to be looked up and the sound file downloaded by hey :)
This is mostly just for fun. I see no practical use for this whatsoever. It's written in Python
It will run on Windows and Linux. For Windows machines just download the setup-mwspeaker-xxx.exe setup program. The windows installer installs everything you need to run it. For unix machines, make sure you have all of the required libraries and download the .zip file and run:
python mwspeaker.pyw
You can also use the wmspeaker library in your own Python applications like so:
Listing #1
1. import mwspeaklib
2. speaker = mwspeaklib.MWSpeaker('./cache')
3. speaker.speak('hello world')
Click on an image to see it full-size.
 | The user interface for MWSpeaker running under Win2000. It's not too exciting. Maybe one day I'll hook it into Microsoft's speech API :) |
Requirements
Links
- http://www.m-w.com
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
License
This software is licensed under the BSD license. Please make sure you have read and understood this license before downloading this software!
Copyright (c) 2003, Jeffrey Clement All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- Neither the name of the Bluesine nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Downloads
| File | Size | Last Modified |
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| ChangeLog | 0.00 kb | Thu Sep 23 06:16:04 2004 |
| mwspeaker-1.0-src.tar.gz | 5.99 kb | Thu Sep 23 06:16:04 2004 |
| mwspeaker-1.00.exe | 3475.80 kb | Thu Sep 23 06:16:04 2004 |
| mwspeaker-1.00.zip | 3.95 kb | Thu Sep 23 06:16:04 2004 |
| mwspeaker-snapshot.tar.gz | 5.72 kb | Thu Sep 23 06:16:04 2004 |
| mwspeaker.jpg | 13.21 kb | Thu Sep 23 06:16:05 2004 |
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