On 2018-03-17, druck  wrote:
> On 16/03/2018 21:43, ray carter wrote:
>>  Don't know about alexa, but docs for the google AIY kit indicates that
>> the pi/hat generates text and receives text in return. When there are
>> easily available text to speech apps available, it would seem very
>> inefficient and bandwidth intensive to stream.
>
> Speech synthesis, as opposed to speech recognition, is not very
> processor intensive. The synthetic ones require the most computation,
> and the natural voice ones are more dependent on memory bandwidth and
> storage latency.
>
> We were able to run many synths on 200MHz iPaq StrongARM PDAs and had
> all the big name synthetic and natural voice synthesisers running on
> easily on early 400MHz XScale Windows CE mobile phones. Even a Pi1
> wouldn't have problems running those, and I suspect should also be able
> to cope with the latest versions.
>
> Although nowhere near in the same quality league, the 8 bit 2 MHz BBC
> Micro was able to run the Superior Software synthetic speech
> synthesiser, by modulating the 4bit volume of the sound chip at about 8KHz.

I used to play with the BBC tts synthesizer at my friend's house. I
distinctly remember him putting his hand over the onboard speaker to
make it quieter so he wouldn't get in trouble for typing "boobs".

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