Making your machine talk...
John Bazik
jsb at cs.brown.edu
Sun Dec 9 09:07:00 AEST 1990
[[Ed's Note: See also related attempts in Misc digest (v9n391). -bdg]]
In article <513 at brchh104.bnr.ca>, jsb at cs.brown.edu (John Bazik) writes:
|> I was in on that thread. Someone remembered a long-ago post of an
|> english-to-phoneme program. I have it now, but I haven't had time to play
|> with it.
|>
|> The obvious hack is to record all the phonemes and write a backend to
|> string them together and write them to /dev/audio.
|>
|> If you want the above mentioned program, send me mail.
Um, no, don't send me any more mail! Yikes! I've placed the program on
our anonymous ftp archive:
host: wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.31.66)
file: pub/eng_to_phoneme
This past weekend I wrote the audio part. It's harder than you might
expect. Parsing the phonemes and slapping audio samples to the speaker
was easy. Putting together a set of audio samples that sound okay when
concatenated in various combinations is hard.
I wrote it as libspeak.a and one application, scat (speech cat). I'll
clean up the code and put it on wilma sometime this week. It'll be
pub/speak.tar.Z sometime on monday, December 10.
If anyone actually gets quality speech out of this stuff - please let me
know.
John Bazik
jsb at cs.brown.edu
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