Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Itay Donenhirsch
hi i know of espeak, is there any option to make it talk in hebrew? 2009/11/1 ik ido...@gmail.com: Hello list, I have a client that want to use MS Text to Speech engine for synthesize Hebrew voice. I wish to stay at the FOSS side (or at least with Linux rather then moving to MS Windows).

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Itay Donenhirsch wrote: i know of espeak, is there any option to make it talk in hebrew? Not yet. I wrote to the developer of Espeak to ask him about the possibility. The problem is of course that written Hebrew does not include many of the vowel sounds, which means

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread ik
espeak does not yet work with Hebrew. My biggest problems are that I do not have time or knowledge how to add such support. I have a lot of things that I do not understand in the audio field regardless of voice synthesizing, so I do not know how to add support for such tools. Anyway, thank you

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 03:01:08PM -0800, eliyahu cohen wrote: --- On Sun, 11/1/09, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend you to download the sources, and create packages for Debian on your own. Hi Ido, Advice taken. I installed Asterisk SVN-branch-1.4-r226531. Note that the

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009, Geoff Shang wrote about Re: hebrew text to speech: ... The problem is of course that written Hebrew does not include many of the vowel sounds, which means that a text-to-speech engine needs to either make educated guesses about which sounds to insert when, or have a big

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Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
1. Add to Hspell also vowel sounds. This is a harder than it sounds   (because we need to know how the vowels change in inflection...), but   possible. The Morfix website has a Hebrew dictionary with vowel sounds: http://milon.morfix.co.il/?q=%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D Could that information

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
Prof. Uzzi Ornan from the Technion has a great Hebrew reading application that works according to these principles, but unfortunately it is not free. I just wrote to him, lets see what he says. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote about Re: hebrew text to speech: 1. Add to Hspell also vowel sounds. This is a harder than it sounds �  (because we need to know how the vowels change in inflection...), but �  possible. The Morfix website has a Hebrew dictionary with vowel

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-02 Thread eliyahu cohen
--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il Subject: Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 2:32 PM On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 03:01:08PM -0800, eliyahu cohen wrote: --- On Sun,

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:13:19PM -0800, eliyahu cohen wrote: --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il Subject: Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 2:32 PM On Sun, Nov