Sanskrit text to speech software

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Venetia Kotamraju

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Oct 18, 2012, 2:14:46 AM10/18/12
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Namaste 

Does anyone know of a text to speech software for Sanskrit?  A friend of mine is interested in knowing if such a thing exists and if it does how it would work - eg: I presume it would require the Sanskrit to be in Unicode and in a readable format (not in PDF).

Thank you

Venetia

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Shikhar Mishra

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Oct 18, 2012, 9:02:34 AM10/18/12
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Sorry, for got to mention, please open the link (pointing to Google translate) in either Firefox or Google Chorme web browser, and  click on the speaker icon to listen. Internet Explorer version 8, and below, doesn't seem to support the listen feature of Google Translate.

Shikhar

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Shikhar Mishra <shik...@gmail.com> wrote:
Namaste,

Google Translate does an acceptable job of speaking Hindi text input in Devnagari unicode. It was able to render aloud the following shloka:

ततो रावणनीतायाः सीतायाः शत्रुकर्शनः ।
इयेष पदमन्वेष्टुं चारणाचरिते पथि ।।


Sorry, not the best tool, at least yet. But like all intelligent systems, it seems to be getting mature.

Shikhar


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Vishvas Vasuki

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Oct 21, 2012, 11:27:30 PM10/21/12
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Adolf von Württemberg

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Oct 22, 2012, 12:58:02 PM10/22/12
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Dear Fellow Sanskritists,

Tangential to this text-to-speech discussion is one source for other languages too. Working within German, French and Hindi I use the following vendor:

http://www.nextup.com/

Their website also has links for purchasing many other languages. I have used this vendor for Windows XP, Vista, Win7 and now Windows 8. Note that you have to purchase the different “voices”, e.g. male and/or female voices in Hindi and other languages from them and/or other links on their website. As an amusing comment, after having purchased female Indian voices to read both English & Hindi texts for me, I informed my wife, Rani: “No, I do not have a female visitor in my computer room.” <g>

विष्णुः

P.S. I am very interested in obtaining text-to-speech for Sanskrit too.

Die Macht wandelt gerne auf krummen Beinen.

("Power likes to walk on crooked legs.")

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

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Upendra Watwe

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Sep 15, 2014, 4:46:21 PM9/15/14
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Namaste All,
Watch this space around Deepawali 2014 for the announcement of a computer/ mobile based reader of sanskrit .
Upendra Watwe


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Upendra Watwe
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Glastonbury,  CT , USA -06067
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