[DECtalk] New synthesizer Gnuspeech

[Tony Baechler]

Hi all,

I thought people here might be interested in reading about this synthesizer:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuspeech/

It's still very much in early development, but looks potentially 
interesting.  There are currently two versions, one for the Mac and one for 
Linux and Unixlike operating systems.  I don't have a Mac and I can't 
comment on Mac accessibility.  The Mac version comes with a graphical 
application which lets you change speech parameters.  I compiled the source 
on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04.3 Linux if anyone wants the binaries and libraries. 
If you do, please write off list to the address in my signature.

If you're on Windows or don't want to compile from source, you're not left 
out.  I'll shortly be uploading a demo in mp3 so you can hear it actually 
reading a large amount of text.  Yes, it should be able to sing from what 
I've gathered from the above site.  Here is the mp3 demo:

http://classicradio.us/iso/gnuspeech_gpl.mp3

Share and distribute the above demo as much as you want, but attribution 
would be appreciated.  It's written in C and the dictionaries are in plain 
text, so they should be modifyable without the graphical application.  I 
would be interested in people's opinions on this.

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