Hi Felipe, Thank you for your comment on Gnuspeech.
To have Gnuspeech speak Portugese requires a significant amount of work. First Monet has to have the ability to save and retrieve database files implemented (should be pretty straightforward). Then you have to characterise the basic postures of Portugese in terms of the tube radii and test them. Then you need to create models of Portugese intonation and rhythm and test them. Has anyone worked on the rhythm and intonation of Portugese? Finally you have to create a pronouncing dictionary, orthography-to-postures, for Portugese, with a method of using the dictionary to get the pronunciation of derivative words from the ones actually in the dictionary, and a pre-parser to deal with standard items like dates and numbers to ensure that they are converted into a normal pronounceable form. Finally you need a set of letter-to-sound rules for Portugese in case there are words that are not found in the dictionary or obtained by the derivative procedures. Monat was designed to support such work, and it is what we used to create the databases for English Similar steps are required to create the databases for any additional language that you want Gnuspeech to speak. There are precompiled manuals Monet and TRAcT manuals on my university website give insight into what we did: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca The Latex source files for the manuals are on the Gnuspeech project FSF site. The illustrations use the Mac OSX version where screen shots are used. It took three of us rather less than a year to go from having no tools, to having created the tools, and used them to create the databases and a working system. All good wishes. david ------- David R. Hill Emeritus Professor University of Calgary Gnuspeech FSF project leader On May 6, 2017, at 15:31 13PM, Felipe Castro wrote: > I like this, it' s very nice! > > Marcelo, have you tried GnuSpeech to speak in other languages, you seem to be > brazilian, just like me, so it would nice to have this "thing" speaking in > Portuguese... > > Felipe Castro > > > 2017-05-06 19:01 GMT-03:00 Marcelo Matuda <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > GnuspeechSA 0.1.5 has a serious (and stupid) bug in the intonation. The > problem is that the intonation curve is not smooth. This bug has been fixed > in GnuspeechSA 0.1.6. It can be downloaded at: > > https://gitlab.com/mym8/gnuspeech_sa/tags > > or > > https://github.com/mym8/gnuspeech_sa/releases > > BTW there are some synthesis examples at: > https://mym.eng.br/gnuspeech.html > > Marcelo > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnuspeech-contact mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact > > _______________________________________________ > gnuspeech-contact mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact _______________________________________________ gnuspeech-contact mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact
