The Free(b)soft project is pleased to announce the release of three newly recorded high-quality Czech voices [1] for Festival speech synthesizer. The voices are:
* krb - Czech child male voice * dita - Czech adult female voice * machac - Czech adult male voice Together with the previously released `ph' adult male voice, Czech users now have much greater choice of high quality voices they can use with Festival, and through Speech Dispatcher with other applications, like the GNOME Orca screenreader. All three new voices are already available in Debian unstable distribution under the package names festvox-czech-krb, festvox-czech-dita and festvox-czech-machac. This also means that they will be available in Ubuntu Oneiric release (11.10). These voices were created and developed within the projects "Olomouc Chance for Blind Pupils" (reg. number CZ.1.07/1.2.12/02.0015) and "Support Center for Visually Impaired Pupils" (reg. number CZ.1.07/1.2.00/14.0111), which are co-financed from European Social Fund and Czech Republic's state budget. These voices were created by PhDr. Pavel Machač, Ph.D. and Mgr. Radek Skarnitzl, Ph.D. from Institute of Phonetics [2], Faculty of Philosophy & Arts, Charles University in Prague. Technical support was provided by Brailcom, o.p.s. [3]. [1]: http://devel.freebsoft.org/festival-czech-diphone-database [2]: http://http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/en/ [3]: http://www.brailcom.org Boris Dušek Brailcom, o.p.s. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility