Bug#282928: festival: female voice
Dear Peter, On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 02:41:19PM +1000, Peter Drysdale wrote: For Frank and Javier's benefit - I am an uploader for the festival package. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your for on Debian. Without people like you I wouldn't have a lot of pleasant things I grew so accustomed to: Thanks! For a couple of years now flite in Debian has shipped a CLUSTERGEN voice of the well known slt female voice. Also, thank you for pointing me to flite. I just tried it and it worked like a charm. I will use it instead of festival from now on. I suggest that in this sense the feature required to close this bug has thus been satisfied by Debian for more than one year. I agree. Frank signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#282928: festival: female voice
Dear Frank Leoffler (original bug opener), Javier Serrano Polo (contributor to bug discussion), Jean-Philippe (maintainer of festival package), I am making another attempt to close this bug. For Frank and Javier's benefit - I am an uploader for the festival package. This bug has been open since November 2004 - an inordinately long period of time. First, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that for speech synthesis without voice tweaking in the English language it is preferable to use flite rather festival. Flite has a much smaller memory footprint and runs much faster (It is compiled C code rather than c++ with a scheme interpreter). Please note flite was written by the same authors as festival especially for those not modifying/experimenting with voices and requiring high performance. For a couple of years now flite in Debian has shipped a CLUSTERGEN voice of the well known slt female voice. It is both a free software voice and can be recreated using a purely free software toolchain. The voice is bundled with flite so is within the main archive of Debian. The voice is small - approximately a few megabytes. I make the following observations about this voice. It is a statistical parametric voice and thus has a fairly modern design. I would suggest that generally it would be preferred by users to diphone or MBROLA voices. In my experience, users also prefer it to the clunits slt voice (the one mentioned above as large 100MB+). As such it is a good quality voice. In my experience clustergen voices run approximately 5 times faster in flite than festival. Although I could backconvert this voice for festival, I would think it is better to use it from within flite. I suggest that in this sense the feature required to close this bug has thus been satisfied by Debian for more than one year. If you have an comments suggesting why CLUSTERGEN slt voice running within flite does not satisfy the requirements for closing this bug please reply so we can otherwise discuss this further. In the absence of any comments I shall close this bug in two weeks as having been satisfied by the packaging of version 1.4 of flite which includes CLUSTERGEN slt voice. with very best regards, Peter
Bug#282928: festival: female voice
Hi, On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 07:51:51AM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: El ds 03 de 10 de 2009 a les 09:44 +0530, en/na Kartik Mistry va escriure: Since we have couple of female voices now in Debian for mbrola, can we close this bug now? I thought we were talking about packages for the main category. Anyway, since I'm using a different festival version, I've got nothing to say about the debian packages. I agree to Javier here. It is unfortunate that a lot of voices are non-free, so I feel that the few that are free should be promoted by packaging them. Frank Loeffler pgpdvFOHm6GUW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#282928: festival: female voice
El ds 03 de 10 de 2009 a les 09:44 +0530, en/na Kartik Mistry va escriure: Since we have couple of female voices now in Debian for mbrola, can we close this bug now? I thought we were talking about packages for the main category. Anyway, since I'm using a different festival version, I've got nothing to say about the debian packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#282928: festival: female voice
Hi,
Since we have couple of female voices now in Debian for mbrola, can we
close this bug now?
List includes,
festvox-italp16k - Italian female speaker for Festival
festvox-suopuhe-lj - Finnish female speaker for Festival
mbrola-de7 - German female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-fr4 - French female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-it4 - Italian female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-pl1 - Polish female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-pt1 - European Portuguese female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-sw2 - Swedish female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-us1 - American English female voice for Mbrola
Thanks.
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Bug#282928: festival: female voice
El dt 23 de 10 del 2007 a les 10:48 +0200, en/na Frank Loeffler va escriure: Without trying, what about the ones listed here: http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/ Those are free. I have tried this one: http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_slt_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2 It has some quirks and it's +100MB, but I guess that's better than nothing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#282928: festival: female voice
This voice uses HTS, which is a patch to HTK. You must agree to HTK license (http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/docs/license.shtml): 2.2 The Licensed Software either in whole or in part can not be distributed or sub-licensed to any third party in any form. We need another voice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
