TTS voices project

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd be glad to help in any way possible with the Swedish voice, but as i
> understood it from a friend who already is trying to help out it's a
> nightmare to put together a voice. How do you suggest one started if i
> no nothing about the ins and outs of Espeak?
>   

Hi Krister,

First we need to work out how to easily install new voices not yet 
available in Ubuntu so you can start testing. Jonathan says he has made 
a simple Swedish voice so that should at least give you something to test.

Run a few simple sentences through it from the command line like:

espeak -v sw "Att vara elektriker i rymden är så farligt att man tvingas 
skriva sitt testamente. Fråga Christer Fuglesang, 49. – Nu ska jag göra 
mitt livs resa, säger Sveriges ende astronaut."

Copied from today's Aftonbladet :)

Listen carefully and try to identify the parts of pronunciation where it 
makes the worst mistakes. At this point I run out of useful advice 
because I don't know the process yet myself. I'm sure Jonathan can offer 
better advice as we go along.

The voice files are described here: 
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/voices.html so we should all read that :)

Henrik