Magnus Manske wrote:
I just found an AT&T demo site for text-to-speech synthesis:
http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
which appears to generate *way* better speech than I got from other (local installation) demos.
Well, personally, I find it rather disappointing, and I have heard better ones even several years ago. However, it would certainly be pretty cool to have Wikipedia articles as sound files.
This might even combine well with the validation feature. We could ask them to synthesise an article whenever it reaches a certain level of validation. That way, even though Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, people would not be able to abuse the system to use the software for their own purposes.
Timwi