From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoronha@...>
Date: Jan 6, 2007 9:47 AM


[From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers ]

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 bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com, priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote:

Get it from here
http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival-hi-\
0-1-tar.gz

http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival-mr-\
0-1-tar.gz

Priti

priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote: Hi all,

On this upcoming special occassion of new year I am very happy to
announce a new year gift on behalf of janabhaaratii team :)

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.

Will be available for testing on an eve of new year (most probably) !!!

After testing, please do revert back to us since your valuable inputs
can make it BETTER.

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....

Warm Regards

Priti Patil
janabhaaratii
Language Computing Group
C-DAC, Mumbai
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