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French Perlbox release
by Pierre on Friday 27/Jul/2007, @04:22

I built a french version of perlbox which uses espeak instead of festival.
The advantage of espeak is that it supports many more languages than festival actually does. I love Festival and Sphinx which helped me starting with voice synthesis / recognition but years passed and still nothing really usable in the straightforward way.

So to use perlbox voice french (which can be modified to be used with other languages) we need :

- Perl

- Espeak that you will compile from sources, packages included in distros are generaly outdated

- Sphinx 2 in it's simplest version, no matter if in English

- extract the archive you downloaded in the directory /tmp
- as root enter in the newly extracted archive named perlbox-voice-fr-1.0
- launch ./install.pl
- click ok

finished.

Logout from your root account and launch ./perlbox-voice
Enjoy

download from http://www.r-kraft.com/perlbox-voice-fr-1.0.tar.bz2

or from http://perlboxfr.tuxfamily.org/

you may have a qucik view of this version at working in it's very alpha version, so it wasn't able to identify every words but only few of them, for now it has evolved so it should be usable even with complex words http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/rkraft_fr/video/x2meug_dscf1411_tech

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