Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Status of gnuspeech port?

[David Hill]

Hi Ken,

Monet has been ported to Mac OS/X and can be used to play with speech  
postures, convolution rules, and explicit adjustment of intonation  
patterns.  The GNUStep port is under way, and held up because the Mac  
port uses Core Audio which is not (yet) part of GNUStep.

You could do some experimentation to explore possibilities and learn  
the core of the system by running Monet on Mac OS/X.

The "Synthesizer" port to Mac OS/X is well under way and will be  
available "real soon now".  Best guess is of the order of 6 weeks.   
The GNUStep port of "Synthesizer" will have the same problem as Monet  
-- namely dealing with the sound output properly within the GNUStep  
framework.

Greg Casamento (GNUStep guru) is looking at porting the needed parts  
of Core Audio to GNUStep, which would solve the above problems.

"Real-time Monet" -- an engine that will run **without interaction**  
using the rules, postures, dictionaries and so on established by use  
of Monet, Synthesizer, and associated databases to provide a speech  
service for whatever language was embodied in the databases, in  
whatever application or operating system facility wished to use  
speech based on a standard API, will be ported to Mac OS/X as soon as  
there is a stable version of Synthesizer.  No sure guesses yet as to  
how long that would take but, with luck and hard work probably before  
the end of the year.

If you want immediate access to the whole set or tools, applications  
dictionaries etc you can obtain black NeXT hardware from http:// 
www.blackholeinc.com and load up the software available from the  
savannah gnuspeech site.  I can give some information about  
configuration, tools needed, where the passwords are for access to  
the kits, tools that are not on the site that I could provide (very  
few, mainly to do with NeXT dictionary creation).  I should probably  
put a page up about this, but not many people are wanting that info  
and I really want to focus on Mac OS/X, GNU/Linux and GNUStep.  Going  
back to the NeXT implementation is deprecated, but is a possibility  
for those in urgent need.

Hope that helps.

david

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On Mar 5, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Ken Beesley wrote:

> I haven't looked into gnuspeech for quite a while.
> Could some kind soul post a brief update on the status
> of the port?  Has the "Synthesizer" (the GUI front-end
> to tube) been ported?
>
> My need is to produce a preliminary TTS system
> for an American Indian language, without using any
> recordings.  The orthography is a reliable representation
> of the phonology, so there is no need (at least initially) for
> any kind of pronunciation dictionary, and I have already
> done grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (IPA output).
>
> My preferred platform is Apple OS X.
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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