Thread: Talk-talk: What I didn't say at the Maemo Summit
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2008-10-08 , 04:41
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Text-to-speech can't really work on a tablet until Nokia or someone develops good voices for use in Linux.
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But there are a few good voices in Windows (...) I recently purchased one called Samantha
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I love Project Gutenberg, and am not so attracted by Kindle or the Sony Reader, because I don't like to pay.
I understand that there are excellent voices for Macs, too, by the way.
As you see it's a business problem. You get enough Windows and Mac customers willing to pay for a good voice, but this is harder to get in Linux.

I also hope the Linux mobile context (with many commercial players in addition to Nokia) helps creating this market, or changing the business model in a way that makes feasible to offer those very human voices.
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