[DECtalk] New synthesizer Gnuspeech

mattias mj at mjw.se
Fri Oct 23 00:46:51 EDT 2015


but i dont remember wich year the development of gnuspeech begin

Den 2015-10-23 kl. kl 2:25, skrev Blake Roberts via Dectalk:
> I agree with Mattias that the english does not sound good. To me it sounds
> like TTS of another language trying to speak English. I think that if the
> TTS was based on a native English speaker, the english would be much easier
> to comprehend. Also, the overall voice quality does not sound very natural
> to me.
> Blake
>
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> sounds the tts have bad english
>
> Den 2015-10-22 kl. 14:36, skrev Tony Baechler via Dectalk:
>> 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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