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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

A quick update on some things:
On the SWORD list we have been discussing the Audio feature and Hison 
who develops for iOS was explaining that he uses the TTS (Siri) to read 
along with his Bible program.  He provided a clip (in Chinese) and it 
was very natural sounding.  I think TTS would be worth looking into.
AFAIK at present the uPhone has no TTS program (though it may be that 
they develop one in the future iterations)  however that doesn't mean we 
cannot use a TTS that is functional in Ubuntu.  Here are a few links if 
anyone wants to look at them, and get some ideas, or if anyone has a TTS 
they are familiar with that works well.  The last TTS I used in Ubuntu 
wasn't extremely good at sounding natural (like Siri), but using TTS 
would dramatically reduce the download size for Audio.  You could 
install one package and have a few dependancies and have every Bible in 
every language (supported by the TTS) instantly an Audio Bible.  Of 
course we could even use more than one if it is needed.  I would like to 
use open source software as much as possible, but I am open to any ideas 
about getting a reliable Audio engine in place.  This, at present, is 
the most interesting of ideas (as far as size of audio bibles, and 
automatically being able to listen to any one of them)

http://www.babelfish.org/tts-free.htm
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
and,
http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/espeak.sourceforge.net/Top_10_Sites_Like_Sourceforge_Espeak/
though I think some of those a proprietary.

Also, if I understand it, our program should translate itself into other 
languages as is appropriate (for the interface), is this correct, or am 
I misunderstanding?

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