just writing to let you know i downloaded the 420mb stand alone
installer. and happy to tell you the installer is 100% accessable to
vo. no mouse clicks no moving mouse here or there it just works.
one thing though its kind of sluggish, not sure if it is just the
java interpreter or just my dual g4 not being enough for it.
and the actually programs requires a dip into terminal but then it
comes up with a gui client that works reasonably well with vo, but
some things don't talk like selection boxes, i believe a quick
reclassification of the "what vo calls text boxes" is the issue.
also noyte in the installer that the package selection table didn't
speak eiither the voiceover said it was a blank table but my sighted
wife said that it infact had checkable items in it and she had to
help me to choose what packages i wanted installed. as for being
emotional though, I haven't got that far with it and hope to.
Gabe Vega
Certified Technical Support Specialist:A+, Network+
The BlindTechs Network
Website: http://blindtechs.net
Phone (602) 488-9862
On Feb 14, 2006, at 5:05 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
-- Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
Begin forwarded message:
From: Gilles Casse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 14, 2006 5:53:29 PM EST
To: ML blinux-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: OpenMary: Open Source Emotional Text-to-Speech
Synthesis System Released
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Marc Schröder <schroed at dfki.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:49:34 +0100
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
The landscape of open source speech synthesizers is growing richer.
The
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), partner in
the Network of Excellence HUMAINE on emotion-oriented computing, has
decided to release its emotional text-to-speech synthesis system
MARY as
open source.
The system can be downloaded from http://mary.dfki.de
MARY is a multi-lingual (German, English, Tibetan) and multi-platform
(Windows, Linux, MacOs X and Solaris) speech synthesis system. It
comes
with an easy-to-use installer -- no technical expertise should be
required for installation.
Main features:
* easy installation using web-based installer
- modularity: only install the components you need
- automated dependency checks: missing components can be downloaded
automatically
http://mary.dfki.de/download
* several languages and voices
- German, English and Tibetan synthesis
- MBROLA and LPC diphone voices
- CMU ARCTIC cluster unit selection voices
- limited domain voices
* expressive speech synthesis
- With the tool "EmoSpeak", MARY can synthesize emotionally
expressive
speech using diphone voices
- Expressive unit selection voices exist
(e.g., a German football announcer)
* Markup support
- MARY can read and interpret several markup languages, including
SSML (speech synthesis markup language) and
APML (agent player markup language)
- Timing information for Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) and
Talking Heads
- High parametrisability of prosody, e.g. for emotion expression,
information status, etc.
* Stable client-server architecture
- Multi-threaded Java server, can be used in web applications
- GUI client is easy to use and powerful
- Example implementations of clients in other programming languages
* Incremental processing
- synthesized speech is produced incrementally as the input is
processed
It can be sent to the client as an audio stream, so that the
delay
until the first sound is played is short even for large files
* Mailing list
- MARY users are invited to subscribe to the mary-users mailing
list:
http://www.dfki.de/mailman/listinfo/mary-users
* Development environment
- OpenMary development is based on a modern Trac-based system,
featuring SVN-based source code versioning, ticket-based bug
reports, and wiki-based documentation:
http://mary.opendfki.de
- Project definition files for importing the source code into
Eclipse
- Javadoc available online:
http://mary.dfki.de/javadoc
- Plans for future releases include full unit selection support,
JSAPI support, accessibility support for the client, and more.
Volunteers are very welcome! For details, see:
http://mary.opendfki.de/report/1
* Licenses
- the core OpenMary system, including English and Tibetan
components,
is released as open source under a BSD-style license;
- the German components are released under a DFKI research license;
- MBROLA binaries and voice databases are available under a
non-commercial and non-military license.
Try it out! -- http://mary.dfki.de
--
Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher
DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Here. Now. Real, first-person experience. Am I there to witness it?
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