Re: [gnuspeech-contact] what's the status?

[David Hill]

Hi Robert,

Things are moving -- though not as fast as I'd like.

On Feb 1, 2006, at 8:57 PM, Robert Brewer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully I'm not barging in here.  I saw the web page
> at gnu.org and read some old posts on the mailing
> list.  I managed to listen to the hello comparison example
> and it sounded very nice.  I was hoping to find the
> longer demos somewhere but haven't yet.

I should put some longer demos on the gnu site.  There are some other  
organisational things I have to sort out as well.  The swamp is  
somewhat stuffed with alligators right now but it will happen "real  
soon now".  I could maybe email you a couple of things directly.  I  
am working on adding stuff to the site, in between times, but have  
had technical problems over the last little while (ever since my Core  
2 system died!)  I'mm currently working on a Mac G5 and upgrading the  
other machine to Core 4.  Living on an island complicates some of  
these things, especially when there are frequent wind storms! :-)

> I'm a Linux user and developer looking for a way
> to convert some ebooks into mp3s for listening
> while travelling.  What I've gleaned is that there
> are various porting activities in the works.
> The one I'm most interested in is the "real-time Monet"
> that runs as a daemon.

I am currently working on a port of "Syntheisizer" to Mac OS/X.  That  
is a basic tool for research using the system and I'd like to get it  
finished before taking on anything else.  However, when it *is*  
finished, I should be in a good position to get real-time Monet done  
fairly expeditiously.  No-one else is working on stuff at present :-(

> Actually, for my purposes
> a batch version would be perfectly fine that just read
> a text file and wrote out a .wav file.  Of course not being dependent
> on GnuStep would be nice, but it sounds like that may
> be further off.  Is that in the works now?

A system to convert text to a .wav (or .au or .snd) file would likely  
be the first step towards real-time Monet.  What's your time scale?   
I might hope to have that by June.

Have you looked at any of the documentation?
(http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/ and go to "papers" -- it is  
referenced from the gnu site)

> Thanks for any answers, it looks like a nifty project.

Thanks!

> -Rob
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