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diff --git a/audio/festogi-spanish/pkg/DESCR b/audio/festogi-spanish/pkg/DESCR index 4eb2091bd6d..a2bbe58d75e 100644 --- a/audio/festogi-spanish/pkg/DESCR +++ b/audio/festogi-spanish/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,21 +1,5 @@ -Festival Spanish (Mexican) language support routines (in scheme) from ogi.edu - - - Mexican Spanish Synthesizer - for OGIresLPC - version 2.0 - June 1999 - - http://www.pue.udlap.mx/~sistemas/tlatoa/tts - http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts - - Alejandro Barbosa <alex@mail.pue.udlap.mx> - Andrew Cronk <cronk@cse.ogi.edu> - Horacio Meza <is093970@mail.udlap.mx> - Mike Macon <macon@ee.ogi.edu> - -DESCRIPTION ------------ +Festival Spanish (Mexican) language support routines (in scheme) +from ogi.edu OGIspanish is an extension to the Festival TTS system (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival). This version of @@ -23,64 +7,4 @@ OGIspanish has been designed to work with Festival version 1.4.0 released June 1999. It provides Mexican Spanish voices created by OGI staff and Alejandro Barbosa from UDLA, Puebla, Mexico. -The module is distributed in three chunks: - 1) OGIspanish-2.0.tar.gz -- Scheme code - 2) voice_hvs-2.0.tar.gz -- female voice - 3) voice_abc-2.0.tar.gz -- male voice - -New in this release (2.0): - * works with Festival 1.4.0 - - * intonation module accepts parameter that allows base f0 to be - modified in the same manner as the English voices in the context - of the CSLU Toolkit - - * major improvements to the tokenization module - - accents 'vowel format abandoned - - now use vowel' to indicate accent on non-Spanish keyboard - - tilde can be entered as n~ or ny - - dieresis supported - - Spanish keyboard special characters supported - - a host of Abbreviations added - - improved processing of money, temperature, etc. - - * intonation module: At the highest level of the intonation module - is a new stage to incorporate different phrase intonation models. - - * new syllabification function for Mexican Spanish. This function - uses lexical rules to syllabify and accentuate in Spanish and - solves both syllabification and stress prediction at word level. - - * new function for duration prediction for Spanish that works at - the syllable level and differs a little from the duration - prediction modules offered by festival. - -Notes: - -1) Currently, the Mexican Spanish voice does not support Spanish -characters such as tilded vowels, ˜ or dierisis. You must enter -them as follows: - -tilded a - a' -tilded e - e' -tilded i - i' -tilded o - o' -tilded u - u' -tilded n - n~ - - -LICENSE -------- -This module and accompanying data are freely available for -non-commercial use only. Please see the file "license_ogi_tts.txt" -for information on usage and redistribution, and for a DISCLAIMER OF -ALL WARRANTIES. - - -BUGS and IMPROVEMENTS ---------------------- -Please contact us via email if you find bugs or have suggestions -for improvements. <cronk@cse.ogi.edu> - - -Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> |