[lojban] Re: Using TTS to create lojbanic spoken text

[Jonathan Duddington <jsd@clara.co.uk>]

On 19 Oct, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I'll stop exploring the Ivona voices, They told me that
> to distribure audio files, even for non-commercial uses like producing
> lojban examples, I need to buy a commercial licenses.

"eSpeak" is an open-source TTS with a lojban voice which you can
experiment with:

http://espeak.sourceforge.net

The name of the lojban voice is "jbo".

The current development version has a few improvements. It is at:
http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html

If you have suggestions for corrections, please tell me.

eSpeak uses formant synthesis and therefore the quality is not as good.
 However, eSpeak can also be used as a front-end for "mbrola" diphone
voices, which sound more human.  Perhaps you find one which has the
necessary set of phonemes for lojban.  Information on eSpeak + mbrola
is at:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/mbrola.html



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