Adding new pronunciation engines about goldendict

[dragonroot]

Regarding any legal or copyrights hassle, the files are available for the public and they are not restricted to be used only through a web browser for sure.

Why are you so sure about that? Have you studied the exact terms of service of each web site you've mentioned?

[bkuyang]

Like the idea by ENigma885. It would be useful to have the feature of customizing the pronunciation/TTS engine.

My favorite pronunciation would be from Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/customize
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/media/oald8/uk_pron/c/cus/custo/customize__gb_1.mp3

Dragonroot is right, the terms of services usually don't allowed the sound files to be used from outside the interface provided by the company.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/thread/303218f8de1c3e69?pli=1

Unless and until you find (a) official public documentation of the API AND
(b) official terms of service/use granting permission to use the API in
non-Google appkications, you may NOT use the API. "

[vtliem]

I built a personal version of goldendict. It has web tts function, which can add new, edit and delete any tts url :D

Screenshot and download link (for windows)
Vietnamese:
http://www.updatesofts.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2015299&postcount=176

or translate by google
http://translate.google.co.jp/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.updatesofts.com%2Fforums%2Fshowpost.php%3Fp%3D2015299%26postcount%3D176&sl=vi&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

Add info page :D
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9030789/index.html

[aksr]

I like vtliem's 'way'. It doesn't harm any TOS and it's possible to use any/many urls.
@vtliem: Can you make pull request for TTS?
Then it's a possibility it would be merged.
Thank you.

[hellboy81]

Is this feature already merged?

[chulai]

@hellboy81 which feature? There is no pull request associated to this TTS request as far as I know.
BTW, latest GoldenDict version support TTS engine provided by the OS. Have you tried it?

[hellboy81]

OK, I found it http://imgur.com/OTCvLkS

[xiaoyifang]

goldendict-ng has offered https://lingualibre.org/wiki/LinguaLibre:Main_Page as an new option in Dictionaries.
Qt-Speech is also introduced to have a cross-platform tts .

add as requested:
provide the implementation detail https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng/blob/staged/src/dict/lingualibre.cc

And I can not submit a PR, as the codebase is different ,one is webkit and another is webengine. may the above implementation can give some help. And someone can feel free to migrate this to this repo.

[vedgy]

goldendict-ng has offered https://lingualibre.org/wiki/LinguaLibre:Main_Page as an new option in Dictionaries.
Qt-Speech is also introduced to have a cross-platform tts .

Users: beware of goldendict-ng's downsides (#1616) and of deliberate one-sided advertisement on the part of goldendict-ng's developers (#1618).