A new tts on Linux

[Devin Prater]

It sounds a lot like MBROLA. Good, but it's been done before.


On 11/3/2016 3:13 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are English samples:
> Rosalind :
> https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/y3F1fkxSzl6bxm9/download
>
> Tom :
> https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/lVG0hmXQyJOvGlh9/download
>
> They have no settings here, it's "raw". Orca can suit voices according
> to typical parameters in Preferences, and Kalinux.ini enables to set
> prosody.
>
> To have new languages, let's see 1st how the community sees this
> product. Given that the tts itself isn't free software, doing this would
> include to collaborate with university. Possible, but anyway (even if it
> becomes free software in some years)it has a cost (about 60000 euros per
> language). The technique used is not trivial: recording human voices on
> some significant text/sounds, then processing to create appropriate
> algorithms. It's a big work with skills in linguistic and signal
> processing, but if we have success with Kali, we'll be able to pay for
> additional languages indeed.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Le 03/11/2016 à 16:51, Anders Holmberg a écrit :
>> Hi!
>> What languages are included?
>> How can we help to bring other languages to that tts?
>> /A
>>> On 3 Nov 2016, at 11:32, Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear M. Peveto,
>>>
>>> The voices Tom and Rosalind are English voices.
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>> -- 
>>> Alex ARNAUD
>>> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
>>> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
>>>
>>> Le 03/11/2016 à 02:49, Mark Peveto a écrit :
>>>> Does this have english voices?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark Peveto
>>>> Registered Linux user number 600552
>>>> Everything happens after coffee!
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> We are proud announcing release of Kali for GNU/Linux. It includes:
>>>>> - three French speaking voices: Patrick, Michel and Guillemette;
>>>>> - two French speaking voices: Tom and Rosalind.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kali is slight, understandable and fast, nearly natura-speaking. You can
>>>>> set usual parameters, and also prosody. With Orca, you can decide to
>>>>> affect a voice according to what you're reading: link, uppercase word,
>>>>> regular word.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried and felt as if I had a new screen reader! You can test a
>>>>> 45-minutes demonstration release on-demand. If you want to install it
>>>>> forever, xou can buy it for 85 euros. It is the balance between quality,
>>>>> wise cost, for a product manufactured by people who are casy to be
>>>>> contacted for any improvement, although the program is not free. Of
>>>>> course, Hypra provides the product with suitable speech-dispatcher
>>>>> module, which is being shipped upstream as a free program.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any feedback or test request is welcome. Here's samples:
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>>>>
>>>>> HYPRA, progressons ensemble
>>>>>
>>>>> Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61
>>>>> Mail: contact at hypra.fr
>>>>>
>>>>> Site Web: http://hypra.fr
>>>>>
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