Hi , You all should hear the " Kevin" voice of FreeTTS trying to speak Swedish. Its hillarious and quiet incomprehensible . You can compare the effect with hearing a non-native-english speaker, speaking english with an extreme foreign accent. The problem is of course that even though the LATIN alpahbet is common in the western world, the letters are pronounced differently in different languages.
What is involved in making FreeTTS voices ? Are they sampled from real speech in the same manner as is done to make a music synthesiser sound like a violin or a trombone ? To deploy Solaris Desktops in education with vision impared students a localized voice that speaks recognizable swedish will be needed. I need some advice on how to progress this issue ! //Lars This message posted from opensolaris.org
