[MPlayer-dev-eng] A proposal for the OSD

[Daniel A. Nagy]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:38:28PM +0100, Dirk wrote:
> 2) FESTIVAL!!!! -- that lib AFAIK isn't GPL but since MPlayer can play 
> every format out there it should be able to play ("read") any text file 
> too... or it should be able to put quote screens from pre-audio-movies via 
> ocr (above) into words too... imagine THAT!

Afaik, Festival has a gpl-compatible license. It's basically free software,
but it is _very_ langauge dependent, how you read written text. The free
package includes Limey English, Yank English, Castilian Spanish and Welsh
languages. There are other data sets for festival that make it capable of
speaking in other languages (I have heard the Russian female voice for
festival developed by Lucent -- it's sexy!), but the majority of those
aren't free.

Furthermore, I think, it doesn't really belong to mplayer. I mean there's
no point in up-to-10ms synchronization with festival, so you can just write
a separate program that starts reading aloud subtitles and launches mplayer
in -nosound mode simultaneously.

Just my $0.02 (CAD)...

-- 
Daniel

PS: My apologies for being tardy with the docs; I'm literally buried under
my other duties. :-(