TTS voices project

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <45743859.9000809 at ubuntu.com>,
   Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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.

Yes.  People shouldn't worry that they need to do everything
themselves.  That would make it seem too difficult.

I will set up an initial draft voice for a language, using phonemes
which already exist in other languages, and some simple (but naive and
inaccurate) pronunciation rules so there's something to play with.

Then it's a process of gradual improvement, both of the phoneme sounds
and the letter-to-phoneme translation rules, and also various prosody
aspects such as stress, rythem and cadence, intonation, etc., depending
on how much work someone wants to do. 

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

I don't think the Swedish voice is at that stage yet, unless you just
want a good laugh :-)