[g-a-devel] Happy patch bonanza

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Saturday 01 July 2006 10:12, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Are there other free non-latin1 voices around?

There's a Polish voice here:

http://www.artegence.com/download/voicexml/speech/festival_polish_voice.tgz

which uses ISO-8859-2 encoding.

There's a russian voice here:

http://nshmyrev.narod.ru/festival/festival.html

which needs a Cryllic encoding such as KOI8-R

Tho not "free", Cepstral distributes a Polish voice that can be used in 
Festival.

Here's the relevant voice codes and encodings from:

http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdeaccessibility/kttsd/plugins/festivalint/voices?rev=438982&view=markup

<voice>
  <code>cstr_pl_em_diphone</code>
  <language>pl</language>
  <codec>ISO 8859-2</codec>
  <gender>male</gender>
  <preload>false</preload>
  <volume-adjustable>true</volume-adjustable>
  <rate-adjustable>true</rate-adjustable>
  <pitch-adjustable>true</pitch-adjustable>
  <name>Polish Male</name>
</voice>

<voice>
  <code>msu_ru_nsh_diphone</code>
  <language>ru</language>
  <codec>KOI8-R</codec>
  <gender>male</gender>
  <preload>false</preload>
  <volume-adjustable>true</volume-adjustable>
  <rate-adjustable>true</rate-adjustable>
  <pitch-adjustable>false</pitch-adjustable>
  <name>Russian Male</name>
</voice>

There is also a Hungarian voice available for Hadifix, which would use 
ISO-8859-2 encoding.  More info at link in my sig.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php