Hi Shrini, This is great news. I am excited to imagine the benefits for Wikisource and other similar projects.
Ravi On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:40 AM, balaji <balajijagad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Heard the voice. really nice.. keep doing the project. Hope we would get > a working TTS soon for Tamil. > > Regards, > J. Balaji > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:36 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> >> Date: 2017-09-20 2:35 GMT+05:30 >> Subject: Installing Tamil Text-to-Speech system from IITM Donlab >> To: il...@freelists.org >> >> >> IITM donlab is working on TTS system for various Indic Languages. >> SSN Engineering college provided them the TTS system for Tamil. >> >> Few months ago, filed a RTI to get the source and install it in local >> systems >> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/filed-a-rti-to-get >> -info-on-tamil-tts-by-iitm-and-ssn/ >> >> They replied promptly and they told that all their TTS systems are >> already open source. :-) >> >> >> IITM released it as OpenSource here - >> https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php >> >> >> After following up with IITM team in few mail threads, >> On August 12, 2017, Myself, Mohan and Padmakumar visited IITM Donlab. >> >> Prof Hema and Anju Thomas welcomed us. >> We spent an entire day, trying to build the entire TTS system. >> >> As the documentation was suitable for the preconfigured systems there, >> we can not proceed further. >> >> In the evening, we discussed and found that we dont need to build the >> entire system. >> They have already providing voice model files for festival. >> We have just to download them and compile them to make them work with >> festival. >> >> we can download the voice models from >> https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php >> >> This seems easier for us. >> >> Then, we were trying to compile the voice models. Again, with lesser >> documentation, >> we can not proceed much. >> >> On Sep 15, Invited mohan to my home to work on this. >> We spent a day with no much result. >> >> Today, I mailed Anju of IITM and asked for help. >> Viola. >> We have compiled it already and we need to know where the tts script is. >> >> It really works well. >> >> Here is the demo - https://soundcloud.com/shrinivasan/tamil-tts-demo >> >> Full Details of the installation script - >> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/how-to-compile-tam >> il-tts-engine-from-source/ >> >> Automated all the installation and make a single script to do all the >> magics - https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install >> >> There are still few improvements needed. >> Currently it reads upto empty line. >> Have to make to read entire page or chapter. >> Will work on this. >> >> Tons of thanks for IITM team, SSN team, Prof Hema, Anju, Mohan, >> Padmakumar for all their great support on this. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> T.Shrinivasan >> >> >> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com >> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : >> http://kaniyam.com >> >> Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : >> http://FreeTamilEbooks.com >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> T.Shrinivasan >> >> >> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com >> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : >> http://kaniyam.com >> >> Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : >> http://FreeTamilEbooks.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe Wikimedia Foundation Mobile: +91-9986993336 Skype: ravidre...@gmail.com
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