[lojban] Re: To Polish fellow lojbanists

[ctujvecli <ctujvecli@gmail.com>]

I've had some experience in using ScanSoft Agata for a very similar
purpose (with modifications in TextAloudMP3 Pronunciation settings).
On the whole the main issue is one of licensing, for private use there
are ideal and I am actually adapting the Lojban Reference Grammar for
an audiobook and listening whenever I can (Currently using IVONA's
Amy). However, I've had to take all of these renditions down from my
website (learnlojban.com) as they violated licensing. I've since begun
replacing the recordings with the eSpeak English voice. What's great
is that there is also a Lojban voice with proper pronunciation...
however, the quality is of course nowhere near that of IVONA or
others.

I'm inquiring from IVONA what the cost of licensing is for broad
distribution - until then we can hope that some developers (perhaps at
IVONA!) who are involved would be willing to offer a license free or
public domain version of perhaps just Lojban voice... clearly it does
not have the commercial implications of English or other spoken
languages!

Appreciate your posting!

co'o
mi'e ctujvecli

On Sep 29, 2:31 am, Remo Dentato <rdent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Long time ago I was exploring the possibility of using IVONA voices to
> render lojban text.
>
> IVONA is one of the best TTS around. Being a Polish product, the
> Polish voices are more advanced than other.
>
> Unfortunately I got stuck at finding a direct correspondence between
> lojban and Polish phonemes trying to differentiate between {'} and
> {x}.
>
> For example, to hear a rendition of:
> {coi ro do .i mi'e .evas. .i mi tavla la lojban .i mi xrukla le zdani}
>
> go tohttp://www.ivona.com/online/editor.php, select the Ewa voice,
> paste the following and press play.
>
> rszoi ro do. ij. mi~'hi~'ee evas. ij.  mi tavla la locz~'ban. ij. mi
> chrukla le zdani.
>
> I'm not sure if that rendition would be ok neither if there's a better
> way to make the Polish voice to better render lojban phonemes.
>
> If any Polish speaker lojbanist would like to try IVONA and tell me if
> there's any mapping, I'll try to revamp the old script I was writing
> (that is buried somewhere in my harddisk) to convert from plain lojban
> to something that could be feeded to IVONA recording.
>
> remo

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