[Sugar-devel] Gsoc proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:46:22PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:03 AM, chirag jain<chiragjain1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A basic speech configuration manager has also been implemented to 
>> alter the volume, pitch and rate of the speech.
>
>Will it be able to handle tonal languages such as Vietnamese or Yoruba 
>(Nigeria)?
>
>How would this system handle creation of voices for different 
>languages? Are we at the point where we can request recordings of 
>phoneme samples for the target languages in Pootle?

The project seems to be a _frontend_ for speech synthesis, not inventing 
a whole new method of speech synthesis itself (which would be far too 
much for a GSoC project).

The code uses espeak synthesis as backend.  Languages supported are here 
(linking to a page on how to contribute additional languages): 
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html



Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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