Text to Speech

[Ali Helmy]

Hey lads,

I'm sending this mail to the college group and also to the AISoc because it is somehow related to Natural Language Processing... In any case

I was meddling around with some installed packages on my debian, and i found out this:

Festival Speech Synthesis System
It is a very good system [including an API] for transforming text files and input into speech, written in C++ and developed at [tab3an, none other than...] University of Edinburgh, Scotland... :)

Also, for those of you outthere with debs or ubuntu installations, here's a link to the package, otherwise, i hope u suffer in downloading it :D:D:D

Ok, thats about it... hope it is useful to anyone...

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     Seth
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[Ali Helmy]

Hey lads,

After working with FSSS for a while, here are a few simple steps to get you hearing sounds from festival asap:

Run festival
>festival
Set an Utterance
festival> (set! utr1 (Utterance Text "Hello World"))
Synthesize it into Waveform
festival> (utt.synth utr1)
Play the Utterance
festival> (utt.play utr1)

Or simply, just Say it
festival> (SayText "Hello")

For other feats, check out the manual

[Ali Helmy]

Another good example with an online demo:

IBM's Text-to-Speech research

Unfortunately, this research only offers a demo and presentations... u want to use it? buy it!