A new tts on Linux

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe]

Hi,


Le 03/11/2016 à 23:39, Jude DaShiell a écrit :
> The next question is are these new voices going to be easier to set up
> and use than mbrolla?

At least, as easy as mbrola ones.

> One computer I can run kali on the other not.  The difference is I have
> a proper monitor data cable for only one computer and no cable for the
> second computer and kali makes no post-install accessibility provision
> for no monitor connected by default even if no monitor is detected
> during installation.  In that, kali resembles its relatives though so
> this is a wider problem than just kali.

It's clearly not related to speech synth. What happens exactly? It seems
a problem related to the graphical server itself.

Regards,

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> 
>> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:49:59
>> From: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi at free.fr>
>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux
>>
>> 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 ? 22:33, Devin Prater a ?crit :
>>> 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 ? 16:51, Anders Holmberg a ?crit :
>>>>> 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 ? 02:49, Mark Peveto a ?crit :
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> T?l.: 01 84 73 06 61
>>>>>>>> Mail: contact at hypra.fr
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Site Web: http://hypra.fr
>>>>>>>>
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>>
>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>
>> HYPRA, progressons ensemble
>>
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Jean-Philippe MENGUAL

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