Looking for hints on speech generation (not synthesis)

[David Paterson <david.paterson@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

The text to speech side of things seems to be well understood and fairly
easy to implement, but I'm looking for any ideas or information on
speech, or rather language, generation.  i.e. using some kind of syntax
or grammar to generate appropriate sentences based on the information
input to the system.

The idea is that various information sources like house sensors, news
and weather from web or teletext etc. would be prioritised, possibly
based on preset importance or appearance of keywords, and then the
language generation would create sentences to feed the text to speech
system to pass on the information.

I've tried various web and google searches but haven't come up with
anything which would either provide a ready made solution or even good
ideas for home brew.

With the broad experience of the people on this list I'm sure somebody
can point me at some useful resources :-)  So, any ideas folks....

David P.

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