From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from toccata.ens-lyon.org (toccata.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.166.68]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1ABC1A06B for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:47:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by toccata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E42B840B1 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:47:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at toccata.ens-lyon.org Received: from toccata.ens-lyon.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (toccata.ens-lyon.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MbYxJCKVKX8g for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:47:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from type.ipv6 (p1008-ipbf213akatuka.ibaraki.ocn.ne.jp [61.118.154.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by toccata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D49A840AC for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:47:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from samy by type.ipv6 with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Stpkr-0008O0-9U for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:47:09 +0200 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:47:09 +0900 From: Samuel Thibault To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: hardware or software synths Message-ID: <20120725004709.GN5414@type.engineering.c9.com> References: <605aa805-88a8-42d0-b375-3112b58573ac@email.android.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:47:17 -0000 Jason White, le Wed 25 Jul 2012 00:36:57 +0000, a écrit : > Kyle wrote: > >As for new high quality open source voices, there is hope. Google TTS as used in Android 4.0 is available under the Apache license and uses BSD licensed > >voice data provided by the Nagoya Institute of Technology. I'm not sure about the tools to create new voices, but this could become another option, > >since I would guess that getting the voices running on Linux shouldn't be difficult. I am guessing that the latest Google voices should be just as free, > >and from what I have heard, they sound even better, and are likely some of the best voices in terms of quality and responsiveness currently available So > >yes, new open source speech synthesis tsoftware is being created, and the existing software will also be improved. > > Do you have details of the source repository for the new Google synthesizer? git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/external/svox.git > With luck, it should be relatively easy to check out the sources, and I'm sure > there are people on the list who will be sufficiently interested to resolve > any compilation issues. It's not just compilation. It's reverse-engineering the lingware formats to be able to convert from speech source into the binary format used by the application (what is called "compilation"). Not impossible since we have the source of the application reading the binary, and the speech source is really source, not blobs, but quite involving, because that means understanding the whole thing. To give a bit of history, what happened is that google bought this synthesizer from a company, but apparently they didn't get the source for the compiler. Samuel