Comments on the Text to Speech "algorithm"

[Christopher Brannon]

Gilles Casse <gcasse at oralux.org> writes:

> - 78000 pre-recorded words,
> - 5GB of disk space, wav files, 44100Hz,
> - Each word is a separate wav file having the same name as the word in
>   the text.

What happens if those WAV files are encoded as 32 kbit/s OGG/Vorbis or
MP3 files?  The disk space requirement would shrink to approximately 120
megabytes.  The most-frequently-used words could be cached in memory.
Let's suppose a cache of 10000 words, for a memory footprint of 12
megabytes.  That's acceptable on modern hardware, and it should be
fairly responsive.

I still don't see the appeal of this technique, but to each his own.

-- Chris
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