Source: cicero Section: contrib/sound Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team Uploaders: Samuel Thibault Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-a11y/cicero.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-a11y/cicero.git Homepage: http://pages.infinit.net/fluxnic/cicero/ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Package: cicero Architecture: all Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python (>= 2.3), mbrola-fr4, sox, oss-compat Description: French and English Text-To-Speech for MBROLA This Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine speaks French; a preliminary English support is also offered. The engine uses context-sensitive rules to produce phonemes from the text. It relies on MBROLA to generate actual audio output from the phonemes. The TTS engine is implemented using the Python programming language. . The upstream authors have come up with this TTS to try and meet their own needs as blind users. It's designed to be plugged as output to some screen-review software, firstly with BRLTTY. They favor speed and intelligibility over perfect pronunciation. Cicero is aimed to have a quick response time, the ability to quickly shut-up and skip to another utterance, intelligibility where it counts (not perfect pronunciation), the ability to track speech progression, relative simplicity (hackability) and relative small code size.