[Sugar-devel] Gsoc proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Jonas Smedegaard<dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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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).

Right. So my questions translate to

o Do we know whether e-speak can handle tonal languages?
o Is this project far enough advanced so that we should ask Sugar Labs
for a speech repository, and start recruiting linguists (to give us
the phoneme data) and native speakers (to make the recordings)?

> 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

I see. Lots still to do. I'll ask jonsd, the project contact.

> Kind regards,
>
>  - Jonas
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