Re: Generating voice files was Re: gperiodic

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Another thing some of you may wish to have a look at is the festival
speech synthesis package:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

or rsynth

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/sunsite/apps/sound/speech/


A friend of mine (Darxus) and I toyed around with speech synth for a while.
You can see some of what we did off his homepage:

http://www.op.net/~darxus/speech/index.html


k


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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> > Regardless, there are utilities available for Linux (sox(1) for example) that 
> > can be used to convert between the formats fairly easily.
>  
> The audio thing is a really neat idea. The format of the audio files
> shouldn't be that relevant - either wav or au will work just fine,
> and as you say we can convert between them once somebody decides.
> (Note that the SoX CVS repository is hosted by SEUL. Convenient,
> that. :)
> 
> What we should really be considering here is ways of getting people
> to donate audio files in various languages.
> 
> (Yes, an audio file is an audio file, no matter what OS you
> created it in.)
> 
> I wonder about comparing audio clips, so the user can mention an
> element and it flashes, and then zeroes in on the one he said.
> But that's for a different month, I should think. :)
> 
> --Roger
> 
>