-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:46:22PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: >On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:03 AM, chirag jain<chiragjain1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A basic speech configuration manager has also been implemented to >> alter the volume, pitch and rate of the speech. > >Will it be able to handle tonal languages such as Vietnamese or Yoruba >(Nigeria)? > >How would this system handle creation of voices for different >languages? Are we at the point where we can request recordings of >phoneme samples for the target languages in Pootle?
The project seems to be a _frontend_ for speech synthesis, not inventing a whole new method of speech synthesis itself (which would be far too much for a GSoC project). The code uses espeak synthesis as backend. Languages supported are here (linking to a page on how to contribute additional languages): http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkoxa6oACgkQn7DbMsAkQLizVwCbBHAemHthwsoYj+ThYQ24xNp1 TdsAnidpf4rdAyLANEQ45WDW0CrNG9fg =rHLd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
