pymbrola: a python phonemiser for MBROLA / News: Recent posts

A new release of Pymbrola is out! Pymbrola aims to be a universal text-to-phoneme engine which supports and promotes the use of the MBROLA TTS synthesizer [1].

The MBROLA project provides a good speed synthesis engine along with diphone databases for a large number of spoken languages. However, use of MBROLA is prohibited by the fact that ``the MBROLA software is not a complete text-to-speech system for all those languages; the text must first be transformed into phoneme and prosodic information in MBROLA's format, and separate software to do this is available for some but not all of MBROLA's languages and can require extra setup" [2].... read more