Priti and team: Congrats! It's nice to have Festival in Indian languages. Just what is needed. Hope this news will be shared with all the GNU/Linux user groups and others interested. (Have sent it to ILUG-Goa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa already.)

For those who might not know Festival:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the BSD License.

It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general customization and extension.[1]

The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systematic and better documented, making it possible for anyone to build a new voice. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the MIT License.

--- In bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com, priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote:

Get it from here

http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival...

http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival...

Priti

priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote: Hi all,

On this upcoming special occassion of new year I am very happy to announce a new year gift on behalf of janabhaaratii team :)

festival_mr (Marathi Text-To-Speech engine) and festival_hi (Hindi Text-To-Speech engine) are in their alpha state. Working crudely for both Marathi and Hindi, now under refinement process for it's next version.

Will be available for testing on an eve of new year (most probably) !!!

After testing, please do revert back to us since your valuable inputs can make it BETTER.

Acknowledgments to Dr. Alka Irani (Chief Investigator, janabhaaratii), Sunil Mohan and Chaitanya Kamisetty (telugu l10n team), DONLab, Dept. of CS&E, IIT Madras, our team, karunakar (indlinux) and many....

Warm Regards

Priti Patil janabhaaratii Language Computing Group C-DAC, Mumbai

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