[Indic-computing-users] Festival... talking in Hindi and Marathi

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

Priti and team: Congrats! It's nice to have Festival in Indian
languages. Just what is needed. Hope this news will be shared with all
the GNU/Linux user groups and others interested. (Have sent it to
ILUG-Goa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa already.)

For those who might not know Festival:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed
at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of
Edinburgh. It is distributed under a free software license similar to
the BSD License.

It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an
environment for development and research of speech synthesis
techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command
interpreter for general customization and extension.[1]

The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices
more systematic and better documented, making it possible for anyone
to build a new voice. It is distributed under a free software license
similar to the MIT License.

--- In byt...@ya..., priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote:
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> Get it from here
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> http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival-hi-0-1-tar.gz
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> http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival-mr-0-1-tar.gz
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> Priti
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> priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote: Hi all,
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> On this upcoming special occassion of new year I am very happy to announce a new year gift on behalf of janabhaaratii team :)
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> festival_mr (Marathi Text-To-Speech engine) and festival_hi (Hindi Text-To-Speech engine) are in their alpha state. Working crudely for both Marathi and Hindi, now under refinement process for it's next version.
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> Will be available for testing on an eve of new year (most probably) !!!
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> After testing, please do revert back to us since your valuable inputs can make it BETTER.
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> Acknowledgments to Dr. Alka Irani (Chief Investigator, janabhaaratii), Sunil Mohan and Chaitanya Kamisetty (telugu l10n team), DONLab, Dept. of CS&E, IIT Madras, our team, karunakar (indlinux) and many....
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> Warm Regards
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> Priti Patil
> janabhaaratii
> Language Computing Group
> C-DAC,  Mumbai

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