Text to Speech (Voice) conversion

[krmlkr]

Hi All,

I am working on j2me. I am developing an application in which I want to convert the Text to Speech (Voice) or Speech (Voice) to Text.

Is this possible in J2ME with available API?

How should I start to do this?

Please reply as early as possible.

Regards,
Koustubh.

[hartti]

There is Java Speech API (JSR-113), which has been developed specifically for this purpose. Unfortunately it is not yet available on the phones.

I am not aware of J2ME implementations for either TTS or ASR (Text-to-speech or Automatic Speech Recognition). I would require a lot of work and as you do not have low-level access to the audio devices on the phone, you would have some performance issues. For example, you can only analyze the audio recording after you have stopped recording.

Hartti

[honest_success]

Can i test the application regarding it on emulator ?


-Kartik Trivedi

[hartti]

Regarding it?

Utilizing JSR-113 on the emulator and test that? (I think you need the reference implementation for that and that does not exist yet, to my understanding)

Trying out the workaround I briefly described above? In theory possible, but the workaround in general is not really usable because of performance reasons and you would need to do a lot of work to get this working at all...

Hartti

[ypele]

I have designed that feature for a start-up company:
Client Server ->
if TTS:
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Phone sends text to server.
Server over J2EE can perform TTS ( there are many APIS, few of them are even free)
after, an AUDIO file will be replied back to mobile with its audio.

if ASR:
-------
Design a MidLet that records an audio file and send it to a server that will perform ASR and reply back the strings.


Good Luch,