Hi Robert,
Good to hear from you. Hope all is well.
On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:54 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I hope this isn't too far off the gnuspeech topics: I'm wondering,
if one were to eliminate the nasal tract and the three-way junction
portions of the tube model, then how much would that effect the
quality and intelligibility of the resultant speech?
It would rather defeat the basis of the articulatory synthesis since,
for nasal sounds, there would be now way of siphoning off the
required energy into the nasal resonance and changing the overall
resonance of the vocal tract. So you would eviscerate the tract
emulation and you wouldn't even gain very much.
On a different note, due to the expense of buying a Mac, I've not
yet run the Mac binary you were kind enough to make available;
still hope to do so eventually, though. In the meantime, I've
noted that the Linux/Gnustep version is moving along well.
There's new stuff in the SVN repository on the savannah site now
(we've opted for SVN -- rather than CVS which is therefore now
obsolete). In particular, there's a .dmg file that will install
Monet and a speech daemon on the Mac so you can play with Monet
(still not complete as a language creation tool because the database
creation stuff is not fully ported -- the parser is the next thing to
be completed, then the database creation tools). The direct URL for
the .dmg is:
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/osx/trunk/Builds/
GnuSpeech-0.5.1.dmg?root=gnuspeech&view=log
and choose download.
You will remember that the project description page is:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
but everything is accessible from the savannah home page at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
Thanks again for your devotion to the gnuspeech project and for
your excellent work.
Thank you! It is a labour of love. I'd hate to see all the effort
that was put in when we were "Trillium" go to waste.
I have just got an initial port of "Synthesizer" working, BTW. The
sources for both "Monet" and "Synthesizer" are also in the
repository. I could send you a ready-to-run version of the
"Synthesizer" app if you ever get a Mac.
All good wishes.
david
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David Hill
[email protected]
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
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