[Voiceglue] SSML support (UTF-8 too)

[Doug Campbell]

> I would like to work to add SSML support, I found a SSML parser and 
> translator for Festival, it is here:
> 
> http://www.freebsoft.org/festival-freebsoft-utils

Wow, that's great!

I also like that it allows festival to handle UTF-8
with the iconv library.

> ...so adding support for SSML would not be that difficult, provided you 
> call the voiceglue_tts_gen with the complete SSML document.

I believe any SSML markup will be passed to the TTS engine unchanged already.

> Any work already in progress on this?

Not that I know of.

> How can I help?

It looks like this is mostly an installation issue, not a coding
issue.  Theoretically, if you simply create a version of the flite
executable that has these extensions, then voiceglue should make
use of them.

So, the first thing I can think of is to try it out and see if
it works.

Doug Campbell