Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Igor B. Poretsky" <poret...@mlbox.ru>
* Package name : ru-tts Version : 6.2.0 Upstream Author : Igor B. Poretsky <poret...@mlbox.ru> * URL : https://github.com/poretsky/ru_tts * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Compact and portable Russian speech synthesizer An alternative implementation of the Phonemophone-5 Russian speech synthesizer by the international laboratory of intelligent systems BelSInt (the Speech Recognition and Synthesis Lab of the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR). The source code of the original implementation has been lost. This implementation is the result of a reverse engineering of the SDRV resident speech driver for MS-DOS, and it is officially approved for publication under a free license by Boris Lobanov, who is the head of the laboratory and the author of the design solutions that formed the basis of the speech synthesizer, and Alexander Ivanov, who is an engineer of the laboratory and the developer of the speech synthesizer's the original software implementation. It is extremely fast, compact and portable indeed. Meanwhile, it provides quite decent speech quality. Being implemented as a library, it can easily be used in other applications. Currently need a sponsor for upload.