Date: 14 Oct 1999 05:58:40 +1000 From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ports@openbsd.org Cc: editor@daemonnews.org Subject: festival-1.4.0 + mbrola (state of the art speech synth) ported to NetBSD Message-ID: <wxoge3hw27.fsf@suburbia.net>
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23 diphone databases (voices)! 4 pronunciation dictionaries! 6
dialects! More lines of code than emacs! State of the art research!
Built in scheme virtual machine! 32 inter-dependent packages! 2 sexes!
The ultimate package for not only those working on speech research,
but blind users and those who merely want icb or irc or their shell
prompt to come alive.
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/audio/README.html
Translating these packages to OpenBSD or FreeBSD port format should be
trivial.
Julian.
Festival is an advanced 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.
You will also need to install at least one festvox-* (festival voice)
package (infact, the festvox packages are dependent on this package).
festival --tts foo.bar will speak ASCII file foo.bar,
(SayText "Oh Dad! We're ALL Devo!")
My ZenIRC/ZenICB lisp code is packaged seperately and is available on
request.
-Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
Current version
Version 1.4.0 (June 1999) is now available free for unrestricted use
o English (British and American), Spanish and Welsh text to speech
o Externally configurable language independent modules
o phonesets, lexicons, letter-to-sound rules, tokenizing, part
of speech tagging, intonation and duration.
Festival 1.4.0 has the following improvements over the previous release (1.3.1 January 1999)
o distributed under a free X11-type licence
o generalization of stats modules, ngram, CART, wfst with viterbi so they
can be shard more easily
o Tidy up of Utterance/Relation/Item architecture
o Initial JSAPI support
o Three new us voices using MBROLA databases
o Tilt code overhaul
o XML load for Relations
o Fringe graphic display (ALPHA) released seperately
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/fringe.html
Previous (1.3.1) 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.
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