E-book Voice Reader

[xalres]

I was thinking a cool addition for the e-book reader would be to incorporate a voice synthesizer to read the books to you through your headphones, perhaps have the option to switch off the screen like the mp3 player. There's even a markup language, JSML, for the web that allows for switching the pitch, cadence and tone of the voice on the fly. I'm not a developer so I don't know how plausible this is, especially the bit about JSML. Does the GP2X have the right kind of audio chip to do this? Is there even a demand beyond myself?

 

[theoddbot]

Should be possible, check this out:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/

 

[Frankie]

This would so totally rock! Bedtime stories lol

 

[xalres]

That Flite engine sounds like a great starting point. I'd dive into it myself but as the only code I write is .NET for the web (I know, Micro$oft - BOOOOO) I'm afraid it would take me a year or so to have anything close to even an alpha release.

I hope someone can do it. it would be great for people like myself who get motion sickness in moving vehicles when reading or staring at a screen.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

that would be fucking amazing. If someone can do that and it's really really good, i'll donate to them. That would just be out of this world