Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Quickstart for the latest Gnuspeech?

[Advrk Aplmrkt]

Thanks Marcelo for the exaplanation. So *that's* why Siri sounds so good!

I can see how articulatory synthesis, when fully developed, can be
more powerful because you don't need to pre-record everything!

So is incorporating the research done on articulatory synthesis over
the past decades the current development focus of Gnuspeech? What are
the development focuses anyway?

Also, as a non-programmer and complete non-expert on the subject, how
can an user support and expedite development of Gnuspeech?

Finally, other than Gnuspeech are there other Free Software
text-to-speech software that can produce equal of better quality
synthesis? Thanks!!

On 01/11/2015, Marcelo Y. Matuda <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/01/2015 03:45 PM, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
>> Thanks for the links, and I agree a proper man page or quickstart
>> guide would be super useful for end users! (and not just speech
>> synthesis researchers)
>>
>> I checked out the YouTube videos, and I confess it was hard for me to
>> understand what Gnuspeech was saying... Is there a reason why it
>> doesn't sound nearly as natural as, say, Siri yet???
>
> Siri uses a method called Unit Selection (AFAIK), which joins segments
> of recorded speech. That is why the quality can be so good.
>
> Gnuspeech uses articulatory synthesis, which uses a mathematical model
> of the human vocal tract to synthesize the speech from scratch. It is
> very difficult to adjust the many parameters. Also GnuspeechSA is a C++
> port of the original TTS_Server (for NeXTSTEP), developed a long time
> ago. It doesn't yet incorporate the research done in all these years.
> Hopefully articulatory synthesis will reach the quality of unit
> selection, but there is much work to do.
>
> Regards,
> Marcelo