Flite v1.3

Description:
This is a Pocket PC 2003 compile of the FLITE 1.3 speech synthesis engine. FLITE is a subset of the fine Festival engine. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. Even if FLITE is only a subset, it is still a whopping 4 Mb executable. So to be really usefull, I guess compression of its data-structures will be required.

There is no source-code available for this item, since I didn't really code anything. FLITE is maintained by the CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) and already boasts experimental Windows CE support, so all I did was craft a project file and the little GUI. The source code for FLITE is available here.

The main author of FLITE, Kevin A. Lenzo, excuses the "poor" speech quality. The sample rate is only 8 Khz and the speech rules are supposeably not one of the best samples around, but it shows the potential.

Installation Guide:
- Unzip the file to a temporary folder.
- Execute the Install.vbs script to install the CAB file.

Requirements:
• Pocket PC 2003

More information:
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/flite.htm

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