[DECtalk] question about Kurzweil 1000 voices

[Josh Kennedy]

Espeak runs not only on windows, but mac, Linux and android as well. By modifying its ontonation files and the formants of its klatt voices you could make it emulate the speaking style of any tts you wanted. A-while back someone sent me an intonations file and variant file and when I applied it, eSpeak sounded almost exactly like the keynote gold tts from the early 1990s.




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From: Piotr Machacz
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:57
To: DECtalk
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] question about Kurzweil 1000 voices

That's not even the only problem with Espeak. The other serious issue which makes it impossible to use for many projects is that it's GPL licensed. So even if you were to fork it, made a much better sounding version on its basis, the GPL license forces you to open-source all of your work as well which makes it almost impossible to use for anything commercial. So in the case of using it with a bluetooth headset or any other hardware even if you got Espeak going on it, you'd have to also completely open-source all the firmware for the device which could open you up to a lot of serious problems.

THat being said, I too would love to hear what you've been working on. ☺️


On 16 Jun 2021, at 17:44, Jake McMahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com> wrote:

              What Don is saying josh is that he works with different hardware, some that may not have the specs that would enable much room for anything spectacular.  However, I myself am interested in this type of thing and would love to hear samples or know more about it.  Point here is, Don considers hardware that would not normally bost a TTS engine if I’m correct.  I don’t think his specialty is writing software for the windows environment.  
 
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From: Don
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:19 AM
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On 6/16/2021 7:42 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> Why write your own tts, when you can just fork and make your own version of
> Espeak? And make it talk the exact way you want?
 
Perhaps you missed this:
      "(I am dealing with an extremely "resource constrained" environment)"
 
Don't think "PC".  Think more along the lines of "bluetooth earpiece"...
JUST the earpiece!
 
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