On 22Oct2010, at 15:46, David Hill wrote: > Dear Ken, > > Apologies for the delay in replying to you email request.
Hello David, Many thanks for your message. No apologies are necessary. As far as I know, you don't owe anything to anyone---and certainly not to me. About once a year I look around for a practical articulatory text-to-speech toolkit, complete, supported, documented and ready to use. I know that's asking a lot. From what I've been able to read, gunspeech looks very promising, so I launch an inquiry from time to time. I hope they come across as friendly inquiries. > > The project at present is not being actively developed. The last repository > update was made approximately 11 months ago by Dalmazio Brisinda and included > major upgrades to Monet and a newly completed component required (or at least > very, very useful) for new language development -- "Synthesizer" which allows > researchers to determine the acoustic consequences of arbitrary vocal tract > configurations in the tube model (though the current "Synthesizer" is really > a beta release and needs some code clean-up and a few additional features). > There are a number of additional important "Monet" modules to be ported to > manage posture, rule and transition editing. Unfortunately for you, the > sub-modules that deal with developing these necessary new language data > components within Monet are only stubs at present. Some help in continuing > the port would be most welcome,though I realise that you represent an end > user, and not a developer, so this is not really a call on you. [Anyone out > there interested?] Thanks for the update. What kind of expertise do you need to continue development? > > The existing code-base and software components are quite stable for both Mac > OS X and GNUstep. Have you tried any of them out? > > Many thanks for your interest. I hope to have better news for you "real soon > now". I'm mostly a Mac guy, so I really should see how far I can get with the existing system. I'll try to do that as soon as I can. Best, Ken > > Warm regards. > > david > > ---------- > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Kenneth Reid Beesley wrote: > >> >> Dear GnuSpeech Gurus, >> >> In one paragraph, could you please summarize the status of the GnuSpeech >> porting project? >> >> I'd like to create a text-to-speech system from scratch, for a Native >> American Language. Audio recording, to support something like diphone >> synthesis, would be politically difficult. Hence my interest in practical >> articulatory synthesis. >> >> My main platform is the Mac. >> >> Thanking you in anticipation, >> >> Ken >> >> ****************************** >> Kenneth R. Beesley, D.Phil. >> P.O. Box 540475 >> North Salt Lake, UT >> 84054 USA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnuspeech-contact mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact >> >> > ****************************** Kenneth R. Beesley, D.Phil. P.O. Box 540475 North Salt Lake, UT 84054 USA _______________________________________________ gnuspeech-contact mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact
