Well, since Voxin is no longer for sale, this might be a good time for
us to get started on improving espeak in Spanish.
If anyone is interested, please write to me off list.
Thanks,
Fernando
On 05/10/2013 01:46 AM, B. Henry wrote:
The svox voices were donated I thought, or was this only for Windows usage?
I don't like pico svox at all for English, but found them quite listenable in
French, and a much better alternative to espeak for Spanish; and at the moment
the only alternative for Spanish in Linux that's of quality for
the average user to use on a production system is Voxin, (IBMtts).
I certainly don't mind paying the $5 U.S. that a Voxin voice costs, but
alternatives would certainly be welcomed. I am a big espeak fan, and do want to
work with J.D. to try and improve Spanish when ever I get the chance to make
some decent recordings, but no one nor two synths will be for everyone.
BTW-does anyone have experience with Festival and Spanish?
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On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:28:46AM -0400, Kyle wrote:
According to Fernando Botelho:
# Someone with experience adapting voices for use with Orca/speech
# dispatcher is:
# Bohdan R. Rau
# [email protected]
#
# He was working on adapting SAPI voices for use in Linux through Wine.
# Maybe his experience would help with this.
Android voices should be even easier than SAPI voices to make work with
speech-dispatcher, since x86 builds of Android are now available, and
the voices need to be built for it, making them one step closer to
x86-based desktop Linux. The main issue is going to be convincing the
developers of such voices that many of us would be interested in
purchasing them for a desktop Linux operating system, which would go a
long way toward resolving any remaining incompatibilities and also would
avoid licensing problems that could arise from running a voice on
something other than the intended platform. Only the speech-dispatcher
module would need to be figured out at that point. Of course the voices
would need to be built for x86_64 as well, but in most cases this
shouldn't cause significant problems.
~Kyle
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