From jewel@pixie.co.za Mon Feb 18 09:21:33 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jleuner@elandtech.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_2); 18 Feb 2002 17:21:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 15215 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2002 17:21:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Feb 2002 17:21:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lenny.elandtech.com) (212.17.37.130) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2002 17:21:24 -0000 Received: from [192.168.100.211] (helo=bapli ident=mail) by lenny.elandtech.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16crPJ-00031T-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:16:53 +0000 Received: from jleuner by bapli with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16crRq-0002qo-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:19:30 +0000 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:19:30 +0000 To: Jay Kominek Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban Text to Speech Message-ID: <20020218171930.C424@bapli> 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/1.3.23i Sender: John Leuner From: John Leuner X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=41106253 X-Yahoo-Profile: jewel2011 There are festival packages in debian/testing. I installed them, but all the output seems to come out at twice the desired speed. The web page says that they have ported to Windows (but I don't know if that is possible with current releases). John Leuner > > >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 indicating > > > > the appropriate sampling rate. > > > > In all the posts on this topic, other than the one wav file output, I have > > 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 ??a change, plus c'est la m??me chose > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >