A new tts on Linux

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe]

Interesting feedback. I don't know what's for English, but for French
mbrola has some "belgium" accent, sometimes hard to understand. And few
prosody. So Kali is an improvement as more understandable. But maybe
it's less true in English.


Le 03/11/2016 à 22:33, Devin Prater a écrit :
> 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
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Mail: contact at hypra.fr
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Site Web: http://hypra.fr
>>>>>>
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