On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:02, Robert Vollmert wrote: > A possible alternative is the free-as-in-beer mbrola > http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/ > . It's a speech synthesis backend based on diphones (two halves of > phones). Its input format appears to be SAMPA plus additional data.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds9-3/french.html is a nice introduction. But I really like the idea of local contributors recording the names. It seems to be feasible in terms of storage, even: At around 50kB a name, all names in Germany would take around 50GB at the moment. Cheers Robert _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk