[DECtalk] Open source synthesizer
Corine Bickley
corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu
Tue Feb 28 11:29:07 EST 2006
Thank you!
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[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Tony Baechler
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:40 AM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: [DECtalk] Open source synthesizer
Hi. Basically, I would like to see an open DEC-Talk. If a few
programmers had the firmware source, they could do all kind of things
with it. Just look at http://rockbox.org/ for mp3 players. It adds
features and makes them more accessible. If that can't happen, I
would like an emulation of Access32 or similar. I've looked at
FreeTTS and it's OK I think but Java-based. There are a few others
out, but also either based on Java or of poor quality. Java right
now is totally useless to the blind. There is nothing wrong with
AT&T Natural Voices or IBM Viavoice except that they use a lot of
memory and aren't easily programmable. You can't just send commands
to them as you can with DEC Express.
At 07:44 AM 2/27/2006, you wrote:
>Personally I would like
>to see a good, high quality open source synthesizer, either using
>already existing hardware such as the DEC-Talk or easily programmable
>software with good speech quality.
>
>What programmable features would you like to see in an "easily programmable
>software" version?
>And, does "good speech quality" mean: 1. one of the older DECtalks (like
>4.40 or 4.3, NOT the new 5.0), or 2. some other kind of synthesizer, like
>ATT Natural Voices?
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