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Re: Non-english
by Derek Kite on Monday 20/Dec/2004, @07:50

Festival supports english (British and American), Spanish and Welsh text to speech, Epos supports Czech and Slovak (read the article). These are the text to speech engines that ktts uses.

There are probably non free tts engines that are available in other languages. I wonder if it is possible to use them?

Derek

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Re: Non-english
by Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad) on Monday 20/Dec/2004, @13:14

Also German is supported via Hadifix (txt2pho plus MBROLA) and via IMS German Festival mod. Finnish is supported via Festival. See the KTTS Handbook for details.

http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/

Besides the dozens of other languages needed, conspicuously absent are French and Italian. If anyone figures out how to get these languages working, please email your links and instructions; I'll put them in the KTTS Handbook.

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Re: Non-english
by rands on Monday 20/Dec/2004, @14:09

AT&T used to sell their natural voices packages that supported English (UK & US), French, Spanish (ES), German, and Korean. There is a Linux client available, though the software is harder to find nowadays since AT&T stopped supporting it. This is non-free software. A company called Scansoft also makes a variety of engines: English, French (FR & CA), Spanish, Dutch, German, Japanese. I'm not sure if they have Linux versions of these engines (I've only seen Windows clients). The AT&T one, at least, should not be hard to plug in, and sounds much better than the free TTS engines.

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Re: Non-english
by Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad) on Monday 20/Dec/2004, @17:51

I think you're talking about IBM ViaVoice? To properly support it, we need a permanent licensed copy. Anyone care to donate?

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