[acqq]

Is there Hawking's speech synthesis at all (there was an article that his voice is based on some hardware device http://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave-stephen-hawking-voic... )? I understand it's "just" a "navigation" system (replacing the mouse and keyboard with the facial movement virtual key). If it's so, the title (the "speech system") is misleading.

The project also doesn't use SwiftKey but

https://github.com/01org/acat

"Presage, an intelligent predictive text engine created by Matteo Vescovi."

[acqq]

It's seems that the company which owns "Paul" voice preset and DECtalk now is SpeechFX:

http://www.speechfxinc.com/dectalk.html

I don't know how different is that from CallText 5010 which was, as the Wired article states, eventually bought by Nuance Communications. Still, as per Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtalk

"The CallText 5010 is still listed on Hawking's site as of 2015.[9]"

[voiceclonr]

@acqq: Shameless plug. This doesn't seem to have speech. However, I've tried to build a text to speech synthesizer in www.voiceclonr.com. Appreciate if you could try and leave feedback.

[acqq]

If I understood correctly the open-sourced version uses as an example the Microsoft's Speech API. Searching for which I find the gems like this:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...

"System.Speech has a memory leak - by eoghanoh

Status: Closed as Won't Fix"

I see your work is based on http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/ Can you tell us what are your changes?

Edit: I see HN already commented your work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812734

[voiceclonr]

So much developer rage in that Status :) On the HMM stuff, it was pretty much the baseline code from the link. The things I recall experimenting were more about getting it done faster (threading some training phases, different gcc options during synthesis etc).

[hobarrera]

So the core and a really important part (speech synthesis) is still closed source.

That's a shame really, I was really looking forward to try it out. And the title is grossly misleading.