[Cuis-dev] Text to Speech (was Re: Porting State of Magma)

[Gerald Klix]

On 6/9/21 8:08 PM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 4:36 PM Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
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>> On 6/8/21 10:11 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> I haven’t used image segments in many years too, and I don’t think I’ll
>>>    need them for anything in the foreseeable future. In the past I used
>> them
>>> twice, as far as I can remember. The first time it was to store diphones
>>> (pairs of phonemes) for a text to speech system that was much better than
>>> the one that ended up in the Squeak image, but had the disadvantage of
>>> depending on this database of diphones.
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>> Do have this one still around? Does it support German, or can it be
>> changed to support German?
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> It was around 1998, I lost it. It used the diphones sets from Festival, and
> I never tried it with German but I think Festival does have a German voice.
> The synthesis method was residual-excited LPC synthesis, pretty easy to
> implement in a few lines of code (at the time I made a plugin in slang, but
> perhaps it can run well in pure Smalltalk in modern computers). I guess the
> hardest part when adding support for a new language is the text to phonemes
> conversion, once you have phonemes and an intonation contour (if I remember
> correctly) the conversion to diphones and synthesis are language
> independent.
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> I’ll try to find it on the internet, but I’m pretty sure it’s lost…

That would be cool; thanks in advance!

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> Best regards,
> Luciano
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