[R] Text to Speech In R

[Jeff Newmiller]

Please don't shout.

Speech synthesis is associated in my mind with sound generation, which is rather platform-specific. R is a platform agnostic research tool. R can be interfaced with many kinds of external libraries, so many things are possible. However, they aren't necessarily simple, and hiding operating system differences can take a lot of work. Your expectation that this be "simple" is what seems unwarranted to me.
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Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:

>Jeff - so, do you mean that you are sure it can NOT AND SHOULD NOT?
>Thanks,
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>- Alex
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>Why do you think this is something R should be able to do?
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>Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:
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>>Dear all,
>>
>>Excuse me for my searching skills: I just couldn't figure out how to
>do
>>any simple text to speech in R�console.
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>>What I want to do is, out put simple English words or sentences to
>>speaker as voice. No fanciness. For example, I want the R console to
>>speak "Hello world" or "Howdy".
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>>Do you know of any related function/package? Thanks,
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>>- Alex
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