From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 4:55:12 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 3729314D21 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 04:55:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@not.demophon.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by not.demophon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id OAA41169; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:49:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from will) To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD voice synthesis References: From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 04 Aug 1999 14:49:16 +0300 In-Reply-To: des@flood.ping.uio.no's message of "4 Aug 1999 14:19:51 +0300" Message-ID: <861zdj3gw3.fsf@not.demophon.com> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) writes: > Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes: > > I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to > > pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. > If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it to > cope with Finnish much better than it currently does with English, > seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. Festival is basically language-independent, each voice is associated with a specific language, so with a Finnish voice it should be able to pronounce Finnish reasonably. Since the English voices have dictionaries for pronunciation, anyhow, a Finnish voice wouldn't necessarily do a better job in terms of pronunciation, although a Finnish voice should require fewer distinct phonemes. Creating voices does seem to involve quite a bit of work, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message