From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 28 11:19:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from yoshi.iq.org (yoshy.iq.org [203.4.184.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603EC14C29; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:19:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proff@yoshi.iq.org) Received: (from proff@localhost) by yoshi.iq.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA18547; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 05:19:20 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 05:19:20 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199903281919.FAA18547@yoshi.iq.org> From: Julian Assange To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: festival package from NetBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general control. This package was quite a bit of work to create (27 sub-packages, 10 diphone databases, 4 pronounciation dictionaries, lexicons etc). It should be trivial to port from the NetBSD pkg system to the FreeBSD port system. ftp://suburbia.net/pub/proff/festival.tgz Cheers, Julian. Current version Version 1.3.1 (January 1999) is now available for research, educational and individual use for free. It has the following features * English (British and American), Spanish (mexican) and Welsh text to speech * Externally configurable language independent modules + phonesets, lexicons, letter-to-sound rules, tokenizing, part of speech tagging, intonation and duration. * Waveform synthesizers: + diphone based: residual excited LPC (and PSOLA not for distribution) + MBROLA database support. * Portable (Unix) distribution. * On-line documentation. * SABLE markup, Emacs, client/server (including Java), scripting interfaces. -- Julian Assange http://iq.org/~proff The trouble with acting according to your conscience is that once you start doing it, nobody can trust you any more. Alexis A. Gilliland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message