Hi Rafal,
As administrator of the gnuspeech project, I received your request
for membership of the group. You may not realise that it is not
necessary to be a group member in order to download everything in the
project CVS repository. Group membership is intended for those who
are actively involved in developing/maintaining the code and
developing new modules, so that they can update the repository.
For obvious reasons, we cannot simply allow new people we do not know
to have the ability to change what is in the repository since we have
no knowledge of their skills, abilities, goals, and experience. If
you do work on existing code and make improvements/additions, or if
you come up with new modules related to what exists, or to the aims
of the project then, after an assessment of your work, we would be in
a position to admit you as a group member with repository change
privileges.
I greatly appreciate your interest in the work, and we are always
short of good people to contribute to the considerable task of
further development.
I don't know how much of the web site you have explored but you
should at least check out:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuspeech/
(which is linked from the main page at: http://savannah.gnu.org/
projects/gnuspeech as the first item under "Quick Overview.)
It explains the structure and status of the project. Under the third
heading "Development Tools" you will find "- Browse Sources
Repository" with which you can find current Macintosh Objective-C
sources, as well as archival material from the NeXT implementation
(the "TextToSpeech Kit" which was a fully functional commercially
available real-time articulatory speech synthesis package for the
NeXT. With the demise of NeXT and its takeover by Apple, we put all
the software and development tools into the gnuspeech project under a
GPL so that it may be used freely under the terms of that licence by
anyone). We are currently developing a version that will compile and
run under GNU/Linux GnuStep and on the Macintosh under OS X, using
conditional compilation. So far the main language development tool
"Monet" has been ported to the Macintosh and the port of
"Synthesizer" -- which provides an interactive means of using the
basic tube model that emulates the vocal tract for study and database
development is 80% complete. "Monet" does allow arbitrary text to be
spoken, using the inappropriately-named "Gnuspeech" pre-processor to
convert the text to the input format required by "Monet".
After "Synthesiser" is completed, the two most important tools for
new language development ("Monet" and "Synthesizer" will be available
at least for the Macintosh under OS X. The GnuStep version is more
of a problem as the audio output facilities for GnuStep are non-
existent, other than using basic IOCTL. There is no equivalent of
Core Audio, though Greg Casamento -- the GnuStep project leader has
promised that such facilities will be added, but is too busy to
undertake the work himself.
There is more information in the first URL I gave you above, and I
would be very happy to provide help if you need it. Please keep in
touch and let me know how your own research is going. Perhaps in the
near future, you will become more closely involved in the gnuspeech
work, and hopefully you will be able to join us as a full project
member, once we have got to know you and your work.
Do you have access to a Macintosh running OS X 10.4 or 10.5? You can
download Monet, and the pre-processor Gnuspeech from the repository ,
compile it and run it (there will be some small changes needed to
deal with the ongoing updates to 10.4 and 10.5). I could also send
you a .tar file of the current 0.8 version of "Synthesizer" so you
can get a feel for it. It compiles and runs under 10.4.11/Xcode
2.4.1/SDK 4 all the way to 10.5.4/Xcode 3.1/SDK5). Alternatively, if
you have access to a NeXT computer, you can get the entire developer
TextToSpeech kit and simply run it. There's a set of the required
passwords under the "private" directory in the repository.
I look forward to hearing from you and wish you well with your PhD
thesis.
All good wishes.
david
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On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Rafal wrote:
Rafal requested membership to the group Articulatory Speech Synthesis
at Savannah
User Details:
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Name: Rafal
Login: rpietruc
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project Details:
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Name: Articulatory Speech Synthesis
Unix Name: gnuspeech
Main Page: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
Message from user:
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I'm preparing PhD thesis on Warsaw Univ of Technology on speech
analysis, I'm
interested in open S/W for background work and I'm searching for
useful tools
to not implement everthing by myself.
Rafal Pietruch
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