[DECtalk] New synthesizer Gnuspeech

Mohamed malhajamy at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 06:40:31 EDT 2015


What phonemic alphabet does gnuspeech use? Is it similar to DECtalk?

On 10/23/15 05:52 AM, Tony Baechler via Dectalk wrote:
> No, it's not based on any speaker.  The main dictionary is in plain 
> text and it uses phonemes, just like DECtalk.  It should be simple to 
> modify the dictionary to suit personal taste.
>
> On 10/22/2015 5:25 PM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
>> 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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