Re: [Menai-LUG] Re: Mandrake 9.2 installation problem (and meetings/UWB)
Rhys Jones <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:19:32 +0000
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:05:02 +0000, Kevin Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Good luck, and welcome! KDE has just added a TTS app: > http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php > The main issue in developing that for Welsh would be setting up the phoneme > rules and recording the voices. Well, kttsd isn't a stand-alone TTS app as such - it's more a layer on top of the speech synthesis engine. The synthesis engine we use in CB is Festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/), for which one of our team developed Welsh letter-to-sound rules and a Welsh voice back in the mid-1990s. Actually getting someone into a recording chamber and recording them is far less of an issue than subsequent segmentation into phones and diphones, but give us time :) Hwyl Rhys -- http://cysyllta.blogspot.com/