Hello, there, Thank you for your work and your contribution. The more speech synthesizer selection there is out there the better. Alex M From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of David Hill
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 10:54 AM
To: Tony Baechler
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Gnuspeech Hi Tony, I am the project admin for the GNU project "gnuspeech" which was originally developed by a U of Calgary spin-off company I started with several students and graduate students, based on my long-standing research on speech recognition and synthesis. The work was donated to Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation and turned into a full GPL GNU project when NeXT Computer folded (NeXT eventually returning to its roots in Apple along with Steve Jobs). It is very gratifying to see your interest in the software. I have been listening to some of your demos -- thanks for making them. I notice that the speech rate is much higher than normal speech rate. I guess this is usual when you are creating speech for assistive purposes. I shall watch developments with interest and would be very happy to try to answer any questions you may have. I have posted to the Orca list a couple of times already (actually two duplicates), but my posts have not appeared (so far) even though I joined the list. You may be interested in this paper describing an assistive device that was developed in my university lab: It provided proprioceptive and tactile cues that substituted for the visual cues used by normally sighted people, as well as speech and a variety of gestural commands. On Oct 24, 2015, at 1:46 30AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
Yes, it was mentioned on the Orca list. I've been playing with it and created some demo mp3 files here:
http://classicradio.us/iso/
If that link doesn't work, try here instead:
http://classicradio.us/gnuspeech/
I plan to move the demos into their own directory and will add demos of the other voices. I'll also use a different piece of sample text. For a large body of text using the default male voice, listen to gnuspeech_gpl.mp3. It's the full GPL and should give you a good idea of the overall speech quality and inflection. While I have certainly heard nicer sounding speech, two things I really like about it are its very small footprint and it doesn't mispronounce most English words, unlike most other synthesizers.
On 10/23/2015 6:07 AM, Mallard wrote:
Hello list,
My son discovered this project the other day, and suggested I should point
you people to it.
Has anyone heard of it, and is anyone thinking of helping with it?
ADJ3798-KD
Ciao,
Ollie
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