Cepstral Community

Hi everyone,
I am a new user of cepstrall tts engine. We are developing an application in java and we are planning to use JNI wrappers to communicate with cepstral. I was wondering if any of you knew if Cepstral is compliant to JSAPI (Java speech api) standards.
I would really appreciate if anyone of you could throw some light on this.

Regards
GJ

Hi,

The XML interface to the Cepstral product is SSML.
As with JSAPI (gotta LOVE Java) there is an easy way to make a SSML/JSAPI bridge.

I personally have been successful with getting the SSML DTD, then using Apache XML beans for SSML stream marshalling to JSAPI class methods and back.

It works great!

Greg

The good people at Stony Brook University have been working on a JSAPI / JNI interface for their HearSay browser reader. (www.cs.sunysb.edu/~hearsay )

We'll post back with news about this effort and possible availability.