Jakarta Commons Codec
May 13th, 2003
During lunch, I was talking with Koen about his successful Debian installation, which I still find quite impressive for somebody who never has even seen Linux until last week, and mentioned the cool talk utility that comes with it. And now I open Erik's Weblog, and see something about Jakarta Commons Codec. I'm not sure if I understand it, but is this some way to have the computer speak? Now that is stuff that I like to play with... Anybody happens to know some application that uses this? Or should I dig into the difference between Metaphone and Soundex myself? Comments as "you stupid woman, don't you see this has nothing to do with sound" are welcome, too.
BTW, Erik, The Matrix Reloaded opens in Belgium on a Thursday, too. It already struck me as odd...
April 21st, 2008 at 10:16 PM "You stu....th sound". :) Actually I lie. Codec is for String encoding/decoding. So turning the String "foo" into the hex or binary would be one example. However, Soundex/metaphone are encoding algorithms which try to turn an english spoken word [with american accent?] into the sound of the word. That way you can show that certain words sound the same etc. Soundex is the simplest one, metaphone/double-metaphone/refined-soundex all improve/complicate. When I say the sound of the word, it's a textual representation of the sound, often something like S121 or some such, so not even something a program could use to pronounce. Films in the US come out on Friday it seems, with Thursday 'early' releases seeming to be more common. At least in the couple of years I've been over here.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:16 PM Java Speech Remember this? Now Erik leads me here, which brought me to FreeTTS. I just listened to the "Talking clock" demo....