From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Fri Jan 04 12:18:03 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 4 Jan 2002 20:18:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 65175 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 20:18:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jan 2002 20:18:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 20:18:03 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g04KGnb14962 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:16:49 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:16:49 -0700 (MST) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban Text to Speech In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020104144822.00b41f00@pop.cais.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > >On Friday 04 January 2002 02:05, Jay Kominek wrote: > > > The type of Linux and FreeBSD's /dev/audio isn't 'au', but instead > > > 'ossdsp'. SunOS and NetBSD's type is 'sunau'. You can then leave off = the > > > -r, as it will be able to issue the IOCTL to the audio device indicat= ing > > > the appropriate sampling rate. > > In all the posts on this topic, other than the one wav file output, I hav= e > seen a lot of alphabet soup like the above. The above was intended for someone who'd made the choice to use command line tools. > So where is the software you guys are talking about and if it isn't a > download, about how much does it cost and where do you get it. They're all using Festival, which is produced by the Centre for Speech Technology research at the University of Edinburgh. It is only available in source form from them. Linux binaries are available, but a cursory search failed to reveal a Windows version. > Nora uses Win98 on her computer. The University of Colorado's Center for Spoken Language Research had, at one point, a package for doing speech synthesis which simulated the human vocal tract (and as such, you didn't record diphones, you described how the vocal tract deformed for a given phoneme, etc). Their web page is http://cslr.colorado.edu/ but I can't find that software anywhere. If noone is able to locate it in a week or two, or can't get ahold of someone via email, I'll go bug a relevent researcher in person. (I'd do it more promptly, except I'm still on break and as such, avoid campus like the plague. The research professors might not be back in their offices, anyways.) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose