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diff --git a/audio/mbrola-linux/pkg/DESCR b/audio/mbrola-linux/pkg/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a83b75bbc89 --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/mbrola-linux/pkg/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +MBROLA is a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of +diphones. It takes a list of phonemes as input, together with prosodic +information (duration of phonemes and a piecewise linear description +of pitch), and produces speech samples on 16 bits (linear), at the +sampling frequency of the diphone database. + +It is therefore NOT a Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesizer, since it does +not accept raw text as input. In order to obtain a full TTS system, +you need to use this synthesizer in combination with a text processing +system that produces phonetic and prosodic commands. + +We maintain a web page with pointers to such freely available systems: + +http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrtts.html + +This software is the heart of the MBROLA project, the aim of which is +to obtain a set a speech synthesizers for as many languages as +possible, free of use for non-commercial applications. +mbrola.exe or mbrola: An executable file of the synthesizer itself +(depends on the computer supposed to run it) +readme.txt : This file + +As such, it requires an MBROLA language/voice database to run +properly. American English, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, British +English, Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Romanian, Spanish and +Swedish voices are made available. Additional languages and voices +will be available in the context of the MBROLA project. + +Please consult the MBROLA project homepage to get the voices: + +http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis + +-Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> |