Re: about RHVoice

[Alexander Epaneshnikov]

09.02.2021 1:13, Samuel Thibault пишет:
> Hello,

hello again.
> Alexander Epaneshnikov, le lun. 08 févr. 2021 17:38:48 +0300, a ecrit:
> > 07.02.2021 20:24, Samuel Thibault пишет:
> >
> > hello Samuel and all. RHVoice maintainer here. we are interested in
> > including RHVoice in the debian repository.
> > can we help as a upstream in this effort?
> One thing I was unsure when I had a look at the repository some time
> ago: are natia and talgat the only data/voices/ directories that have
> usage restrictions?

Natia and Talgat are only voices wich has a custom license. also we have voices 
which redistributes under (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and one under (CC BY-SA 4.0) [1]

> About the third-party directory, it would be useful to have a way to
> tell cmake / scons to just link against the system-provided versions of
> them instead of building them again. Notably, libsonic, rapidxml and
> tclap are already packaged in Debian, and we do not want to maintain
> both the main packages and a copy within rhvoice.

i agree [2]
> Now, there is the data: I see .fst files, .dt files, .lts files, .fsm
> files, .pdf files, .inf files, .data files. How are these produced? To
> be free, we need the tools that allow to edit/compile them (or re-record
> them if these are produced from recording human voice, for instance).

such tools mainly located in src/scripts directory. but for now we 
haven't good documentation on modifying or creating new voices.
> Samuel

[1] https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/blob/master/LICENSE.md
[2] https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/issues/266

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Sincerely, Alexander.