Friday, July 27, 2007

Day 75

So the Text to speech is still causing major issues. We have another server that will be used for text to speech only. We are trying to create our own PHP wrapper for Microsoft SAPI. We have several ppl that are willing to sell VocalNoise just need it get this TTS to work. No one said this was easy, I guess this is our big stumbling block.

Friday, July 6, 2007

Day 54

So we have the user generation system done. However after working some 10 hours to find an online service to do text to speech with multiple language support... turns out there are no such companies. Our web hosting does not want to install FestVox on shared server, understandable. But we do have a possibility, Cepstral (www.cepstral.com). I am calling there CEO on Monday to see if we can use there demo site, which does exactly what we are looking for.

side note: this past week has sucked... I mean really sucked. The text to speech issue is a big ugly beast which will take a couple weeks to nail down, thus hosing our deployment schedule. I now know why so many businesses fail... persistence.