[vlc-devel] Need help developing text-to-speech-module in VLC - offering £5.000

[Sandra Derbring]

Hi,

2011/4/7 Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>

>
> Are you limiting to .srt or any text format? Because I believe VLC
> supports many more text formats.
>

We're not limiting to just *.srt. It doesn't matter to us what kind of plain
format the text is in as long as it's easily downloadable and doesn't have
to be processed more than necessary.


>
> > user state this). In terms of free vs licensing, will this be a problem?
> On
> > top of my head, I can think of espeak (not very good) and Festival,
> > supporting Swedish phonetics, but I am sure there are more.
>
> If you speak about this Festival:
> http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> the license, is a X11 type license and is compatible with the LGPL and
> GPLv2+ of VLC.
>

That's good to know. How would it work if the user already had a licensed
engine on their system?


>
> > is that the engine wouldn't come with the module, but work with the one
> > already in place on the user's system (if applicable).
>
> What OS are targetted by the project?
>

Hopefully all OS that VLC itself targets. Is there a need to limit this - I
mean, it there a lot of extra work doing it for each OS? In that case, I'd
say Windows would be our main OS, MacOS as second and Ubuntu as third.

All the best,

Sandra
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