[PD] [OT]TTS

[Reinhard Handl]

wow, that is much more than i had expected, thy a lot.
i'll tell you with what i come up.

cheers, reinhard


Bryan Jurish schrieb:
> moin Reinhard,
>
> I don't really know of any open source German TTS systen (although way
> back when, someone appears to have hacked some German Holmes-elements
> into rsynth -- not sure of the status of that code; best to ask rsynth's
> maintainer (Nick Ing-Simmons) if you want to go that route, which I
> suspect you probably don't), so...
>
> "free-as-in-free-beer" systems, yes: check out HADIFIX and the 'txt2pho'
> program from (I believe) the Universität Bonn, for use with MBROLA (free
> for non-commercial and non-military use).
>
> There's also an add-on module for the free, open-source festival TTS
> system.  The German add-on itself is available under an MBROLA-like
> license from the IMS Stuttgart.  Warning here: I've never actually
> gotten the whole ims-german-festival package to compile under current
> versions of festival: I think the project ran out of money and no one's
> been maintaining that code for several years now -- you may have better
> luck with an older version of festival itself and/or more scheme hacking
> than I was prepared to do ;-)
>
> You might also checkout BOSS (also from Uni Bonn), which I've never
> looked at, but is the successor system to HADIFIX.  BOSS itself is
> supposed to be open source, but the voices and language models are
> (unfortunately) still proprietary, AFAIK.
>
> Please let me know if you manage to dig up anything better!
>
> marmosets,
> 	Bryan
>
> Some URLs:
>
> rsynth:
> ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/synthesis/rsynth-2.0.tar.gz
>
> festival:
> http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival
>
> HADIFIX/txt2pho:
> http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/dt/forsch/phonetik/hadifix/HADIFIXforMBROLA.html
>
> BOSS:
> http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/dt/forsch/phonetik/boss/index.html
>
> MBROLA:
> http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html
>
> Comparison of TTS Systems for German:
> http://www.8hertz.com/tts/tts.html
>
>
> On 2008-03-06 20:40:00, Reinhard Handl <rfh at atnet.at> appears to have
> written:
>   
>> hello list,
>>
>> sorry for the off-topic, but i dont know where to ask:
>>
>> does anybody know a free or opensource TTS with a german male voice?
>>
>> any hints appreciated,
>>
>> thx, reinhard
>>     
>
>
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