From lojbanlists@wonderclown.com Fri Jan 04 12:31:55 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: randy@wonderclown.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 4 Jan 2002 20:31:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 34007 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 20:31:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jan 2002 20:31:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail4.nc.rr.com) (24.93.67.51) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 20:31:54 -0000 Received: from aerosol ([24.162.238.42]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:31:56 -0500 Received: from rnortman by aerosol with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16Mb0L-00014F-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:31:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:31:53 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban Text to Speech Message-ID: <20020104203153.GE1650@aerosol> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020104144822.00b41f00@pop.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: Randall Nortman Return-Path: randy@wonderclown.com From: "randl. nortmn." X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=91794573 X-Yahoo-Profile: uyndrklaun On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:16:49PM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: [...] > 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. [...] .oi.o'anai Yes, on giving it a closer look, it appears that Festvox only runs on Unix platforms. Works for me, but there are Windows-using jbopre out there. There is another free TTS system which runs on both Unix and Windows called MBROLA (http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html). I believe we'd be able to use the same diphone (phoneme recording) database with this package, but it will need additional programming. I'm not very familiar with this package; perhaps somebody else knows more? mu'omi'e randl.