From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D0DC1A06B for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1StpbE-0005pM-Kd for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:37:12 +0200 Received: from jdc.jasonjgw.net ([59.167.198.218]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:37:12 +0200 Received: from jason by jdc.jasonjgw.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:37:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Jason White Subject: Re: hardware or software synths Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <605aa805-88a8-42d0-b375-3112b58573ac@email.android.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jdc.jasonjgw.net X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: jason@jdc.jasonjgw.net (Jason White) 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 00:37:15 -0000 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? 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.