Hey, if I'm not mistaken, this could also be a tts engine for windblows since it's in java. I somehow don't see it working with speakup because of that. Greg On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:14:03PM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hello. Basically, for those who do not want to read, this is a speech > synthesizer in Java. Could this work with Speakup? > > > >Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 6:01 PM > >Subject: FWD: Sun Microsystems Laboratories releases an open source > >speech synthesizer > > > > > >Greetings, > > > >Attached is an announcement from my colleague Willie Walker of the Sun > >Labs > >Speech Group of the availability of FreeTTS, a speech synthesis engine > >written in the Java(tm) programming language and released under a > >BSD-style > >license. > > > >Regards, > > > >Peter Korn > >Sun Accessibility team > > > > > >-------- Original Message -------- > >From: Willie Walker <william.walker at sun.com> > >Subject: Sun Microsystems Laboratories releases an open source speech > >synthesizer > > > >Greetings! > > > >It is my pleasure to announce that the Sun Microsystems Laboratories > >Speech Group has made its FreeTTS (http://freetts.sourceforge.net/) > >speech synthesis engine available via open source through a BSD-style > >license. The engine is written entirely in the Java(tm) programming > >language and provides partial support for the synthesis portion > >of the Java Speech API 1.0 specification. > > > >You can read more about this project in an article on > >http://java.sun.com: > > > > http://java.sun.com/features/2001/12/flite.html > > > >An excerpt from the article is as follows: > > > > "Researchers from Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Burlington, > > Massachusetts have created an open source speech synthesis engine > > written entirely in the Java(tm) programming language. This > > high-performance software converts text to speech. You type it; > > your workstation speaks it. And the whole world benefits. > > > > Willie Walker, Paul Lamere, and Philip Kwok combined the Festival > > Speech Synthesis System, with its robust architecture, and the Flite > > engine, with its succinct algorithms, to create FreeTTS, a > >synthesizer > > that delivers both power and flexibility. > > > > The team ported Flite, programmed in C, and Festival, written in C++ > > and Scheme, to the Java programming language. FreeTTS generated > > intelligible speech four weeks after researchers wrote the first line > > of code. But even with such a short development time, the team did > >not > > compromise results. FreeTTS outperforms both original applications, > > executing nearly four times faster than Flite in some environments." > > > >For the Sun Labs Speech Group, > > > >Willie Walker, > >Manager and Principal Investigator > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
