From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Jan 03 18:03:25 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 4 Jan 2002 02:03:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 51878 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 02:03:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jan 2002 02:03:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 02:03:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0423NP13737 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:03:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:03:22 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban Text to Speech In-Reply-To: <20020103205206.B23288@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 jspickes@etrademail.com wrote: > I believe the dialog8k.wav you've discovered is the file to which I'm > referring. Yes, I'll agree that it could stand some improvement, but I'm > impressed with its intelligibility at this early stage. Even with my > (extremely limited) lojban vocabulary, I was able to pick out parts of what > it was saying. I can pick out the occasional word but not enough to get any context. > With regards to the accent, the methods that had been previously discussed > required that someone record their lojban speech in order for the TTS > software to imitate them. My assumption is that the TTS software in this > case is constructing the speech from a sequence of sound bytes that someone > recorded. It appears that the person who recorded these snippets had a > notable southern accent. While this in no way diminishes the > accomplishment, I did find it amusing. If there is a way to use a Spanish or Italian accent, or any language with cleaner vowels, it will probably sound better! -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.