On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Jonas Smedegaard<d...@jones.dk> wrote: > -----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).
Right. So my questions translate to o Do we know whether e-speak can handle tonal languages? o Is this project far enough advanced so that we should ask Sugar Labs for a speech repository, and start recruiting linguists (to give us the phoneme data) and native speakers (to make the recordings)? > 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 I see. Lots still to do. I'll ask jonsd, the project contact. > 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----- > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
