From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 3:10: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from not.demophon.com (ns.demophon.com [193.65.70.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6860214DF4 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 03:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@not.demophon.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by not.demophon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id NAA41043; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 13:03:11 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from will) To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD voice synthesis References: <37A71600.F38E822E@softweyr.com> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 04 Aug 1999 13:03:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: wes@softweyr.com's message of "3 Aug 1999 19:19:23 +0300" Message-ID: <863dxz3lsx.fsf@not.demophon.com> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Yes. It's almost surprising how little speech synthesis has improved, at least judging from the festival demos (it is, of course, better than SAM, but apparently the data and processing requirements are several orders of magnitude greater). I haven't downloaded all of the required stuff, yet, so I don't know how good or bad it actually might be. I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message