[lojban-beginners] Re: Check pronunciation, please?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:44:43PM -0400, John Johnson wrote:
> Since I have no one to speak lojban too, and since the
> pronunciation is  so well defined, it sounds like an ideal
> application for a speech  synthesizer. 

You would think so.  :-/

(Sorry, I'm a bit bitter because people have tried this so many
times, and I don't have the skills to do it myself).

http://www.lojban.org/tiki//tiki-index.php?page=Lojban+diphone+speech+synthesizer

http://www.lojban.org/twiki/bin/view/Files/SoundFiles -- near the
bottom is more FestVox stuff.

> I haven't found one on the
> web yet, so I've been working  on my own, using the speech synth
> built into Mac OS X. If one of you  have time, could you listen to
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/johnatl/.cv/johnatl/Public/mi_viska.aiff-binhex.hqx
> or
> http://homepage.mac.com/johnatl/.cv/johnatl/Public/mi_viska.wav-binhex.hqx
> 
> and let me know if it's even close to being right?

That's *really* hard for Windows users to deal with.  Is it possible
for you to make zip versions?

-Robin

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