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Re: Q?: Text To Speech

From:David G. Durand <dgd@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 15:24
>Any body knows about a Text to Speech program, preferible freeware or free >software but shareware and comware too, you can feed with SAMPA, define >orthography to phonetic patterns, and some other features.
The macintosh TTF software developers kit includes a mexican spaniswh module, but switching speech synthesizers mid-word is almost certainly not feasible. On the other hand you can use teachtext (notepad equivalent) with the speech software to type in phonemes and hear the pronunciation. You might be able to do _some_ interesting things by playing with the pitch/emphasis controls. I have no idea about TTS on Unix or evil empire machines. I would like a decent concatenative synthesis engine that ran cross-platform so I could add my own phonemes and stuff... There are a lot of papers on this stuff, but I'm not really good at number-crunching. If anyone finds a good tool like this, they should post a note here, though. -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://www.dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________