From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 6 16:20:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17308 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (daemon@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA17299 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:20:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20924 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 10:20:39 +1000 Received: from netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au by ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.7.5/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with SMTP id KAA20207 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 10:21:39 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost by netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.8.1/DEVETIR-0.1) id AAA01336 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 00:22:17 GMT Message-Id: <199702070022.AAA01336@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Excellent quality speech synthesiser - runs under FreeBSD! (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 10:22:16 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Have a gander at this - it sounds rather good and interfaces to VoxWare & NAS. Stephen ------- Forwarded Message Received: from ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au by netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.8.1/DEVETIR-0.1) id RAA29168 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:37:14 GMT Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au by ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.7.5/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with MHSnet id DAA09001 for sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 03:36:28 +1000 (EST) Received: from frank.cs.bham.ac.uk (frank.cs.bham.ac.uk [147.188.192.9]) by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA26510 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 03:34:55 +1000 Received: from liddell.cstr.ed.ac.uk by frank.cs.bham.ac.uk with SMTP (MMTA); Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:16:17 +0000 Received: from margo (margo.cstr.ed.ac.uk [192.41.114.73]) by liddell.cstr.ed.ac.uk (8.6.13/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA24820 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:16:56 GMT From: Alan W Black Received: (awb@localhost) by margo (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) id RAA24297; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:16:54 GMT Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:16:54 GMT Message-Id: <199702051716.RAA24297@margo> To: synth@cs.bham.ac.uk Subject: Announcing The Festival Speech Synthesis System The Festival Speech Synthesis System version 1.1.1 Beta Centre for Speech Technology Research University of Edinburgh, UK Copyright (c) 1996,1997 All Rights Reserved. We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.1 of Festival. Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, client/server mores and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English, Welsh and Spanish) though English is the most advanced. The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and HTML. NOTE: Festival is a young system and constantly being developed, this release is not a final polished system and although it has been checked on many systems, it should still be consider BETA quality code. This distribution includes: * Full English text to speech * Full C++ source for modules, SIOD interpreter, and Scheme library * Lexicon based on OALD (distributed with permission) * Edinburgh Speech Tools, low level C++ library * British English diphone database (for residual LPC resynthesis) (8k (2.3M) and 16k (8.5M) versions of the database are included) * Full documentation (html, postscript and GNU info format) Festival version 1.1.1 Beta is available by anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.cstr.ed.ac.uk/pub/festival/1.1.1/ And through the Festival Download Page http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html The Festival home page, offering descriptions of the system, examples and online demos, can be found at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html Requirements To run Festival you need: * A Unix machine, Festival has compiled and run on Suns (SunOS and Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, SGIs and DEC Alphas but should be portable to any standard Unix machine. * GNU C++ version 2.7.2 or 2.6.3 * GNU Make any recent version * Audio hardware, /dev/audio (Suns, Linux and FreeBSD) and NCD's NAS network transparent audio system are supported directly but Festival supports the execution of any Unix command that can play audio files. * GNU readline library is recommended though not necessary Restrictions The system is made available for free for research, educational and individual use only, for commercial licencing please contact the authors. Unlike previous versions this version may be redistributed for non-commercial use. If you wish to use it in a commercial system you should contact us first. Research distributions, e.g. bundled with other systems, are allowed. Commercial unmodified re-distributions (e.g. on CDROM with collections of other software) are not permitted but will probably be permitted for free if you ask. We do intend that later versions may be distributed of such CDROMs without requiring permission but until we have a more stable system we'd like to control that. NEWS Since our last release (1.0.0 Nov) Festival has had the following enhancements - -- A new set of (distributable) diphones (roger) - -- BSD socket client/server support - -- A start at programmable text modes for mode specific processing - -- Fully programmable (rule-based) intonation module - -- Tokenizations now externally controlled, and improved - -- Better Scheme i/o (a format function and pretty printer) - -- Externally specified utterance end, (and better definition) - -- Many little (and important) bugs fixed (thanks beta testers) - -- Documentation overhaul FUTURE The new diphone set still requires more work and we are likely to release frequent updates to it. Thank you for your interest in our work Alan W Black 24th January 1997 Alan W Black email: awb@cstr.ed.ac.uk Centre for Speech Technology Research http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/~awb University of Edinburgh tel: (44) 131 650 2787 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK fax: (44) 131 650 6351 ------- End of Forwarded Message -- The views expressed above are not those of WorkCover Queensland, Australia. Unsolicited commercial email will be proofread at $900.00 US per message. Reading this constitutes acceptance of this condition.