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MBROLA speech synthesizer available. (fwd)




I forward this from red-hat's mailing lt. If we have any blind Linux users
in Israel this might come in handy (altough it does not support Hebrew).


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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:51:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hans Zoebelein <zocki@goldfish.cube.net>
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    Thierry Dutoit <dutoit@tcts.fpms.ac.be>
Subject: MBROLA speech synthesizer available.
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MBROLA speech synthesizer, which delivers highest quality speech
output in different languages is now available at Redhat's FTP site.
you will find it in the CONTRIB directory.

MBROLA was developed at 
Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, 
TCTS Lab, 31, bvd Dolez, 
B-7000 Mons, Belgium.
e-mail: mbrola@tcts.fpms.ac.be


Enclosed are also tools to convert ASCII files into MBROLA's
phoneme files. So full spoken screen output is at reach.

As there are:
mbrola-2.04a-2.i386.rpm			Mbrola synthesizer & run scripts
mbrola-ttp-English-1.0-1.i386.rpm	Text to phonemes English voice
mbrola-tts-French-1.0-1.i386.rpm	Text to phonemes French	voice
mbrola-tts-Spanish-1.0-1.i386.rpm	Text to phonemes Spanish voice

mbrola-br1-1.00-1.i386.rpm		Portuguese (Brasil) male voice
mbrola-de1-2.030-1.i386.rpm		German female voice 
mbrola-de2-2.040-1.i386.rpm		German male voice
mbrola-en1-1.0-1.i386.rpm		English male voice
mbrola-es1-2.020-1.i386.rpm		Spanish male voice
mbrola-fr1-2.00b-1.src.rpm		French (the authors!) male voice
mbrola-fr2-2.041-1.i386.rpm		French female voice
mbrola-nl1-0.1-1.i386.rpm		Dutch male voice
mbrola-nl2-0.2-1.i386.rpm		another Dutch male voice
mbrola-ro1-2.020-1.i386.rpm		Romanian male voice
and their source counterpart RPM files.

MBROLA speech synthesizer is free for non commercial, non military usage.
For detailed copyright see headers of RPM files and
/usr/doc/mbrola*/readme.txt


Lend Linux you ear
and enjoy! 

Hans


PS.: If you are interested in blind support for Linux, please read
right side of footer.


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