NVDA Japanese team adopted Open JTalk (Japanese language TTS), which uses HTS Engine API, to NVDA using Python and ctype binding.

latest version: launchpad

Japanese: http://ja.nishimotz.com/project:libopenjtalk

github repo

• http://github.com/nishimotz/libopenjtalk

branches

• nvdajp : JTalk for NVDA (Win32)
  • http://github.com/nishimotz/libopenjtalk/tree/nvdajp
  • Japanese: http://ja.nishimotz.com/nvdajp

• master : under development (for Ubuntu Linux)

related github repos

• http://github.com/nishimotz/htsengineapi
• http://github.com/nishimotz/ojt-python

Windows XP SP3 (32bit)

with cygwin-1.7.6, mecab-0.98 for Win32, Python 2.6.x Win32

$ export CXX='g++ -mno-cygwin'
$ export CC='gcc -mno-cygwin'
$ sh /usr/bin/set-gcc-default-3.sh

$ cd htsengineapi
$ autoconf
$ ./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32
$ make
$ cd ..

$ cd libopenjtalk
$ sh do_configure.sh
$ make
$ cd lib
$ make
$ file libopenjtalk.dll
libopenjtalk.dll: PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (console) Intel 80386 32-bit

$ ls /cygdrive/c/openjtalk
hts_voice_nitech_jp_atr503_m001-1.01  open_jtalk_dic_shift_jis-1.00

$ ls /cygdrive/c/Mecab/bin
libmecab.dll          mecab-dict-gen.exe    mecab-system-eval.exe  mecab.exe
mecab-cost-train.exe  mecab-dict-index.exe  mecab-test-gen.exe

$ python jtalk.py

do_configure.sh

export CXX='g++ -mno-cygwin'
export CC='gcc -mno-cygwin'
./configure --with-hts-engine-header-path=/cygdrive/c/work/github/htsengineapi/include \
  --with-hts-engine-library-path=/cygdrive/c/work/github/htsengineapi/lib \
  --build=i686-pc-mingw32 --with-charset=shift_jis