wow, didn't realise that asking about speech so innocently would generate so much traffic :)
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:50:49 +0200 "Bryan Jurish" moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.de wrote:
other possibilities (linux) i've looked at:
mbrola (http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis)
Yeah, I ended up there, too. I got quite excited because I kinda liked the sound examples and the fact that I had actually control over the phonemes. Unfortunately they seem to be only distributing binary versions and their version of a binary for linux-ppc doesn't work on my system. Looks like it's some dependency prob connected to libstdc++. Will see if they can help.
I had a quick look (well I fiddled with some things for a couple of hours). It's a bit over my head right now although looks like there are some interesting possibilitites in developing voices and such. But it's definitely usable in a very stright-forward manner. I will prolly end up using it in one way or another...
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/saywhat
This is cool :) Although not what I(thought)'m looking for for my current project, but I'm beginning to see some interesting possibilities...
Thanks everyone for the input. ./MiS