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diff --git a/audio/mbrola/pkg/DESCR b/audio/mbrola/pkg/DESCR index 6039136d5ab..a12619882fe 100644 --- a/audio/mbrola/pkg/DESCR +++ b/audio/mbrola/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,33 +1,24 @@ -MBROLA is a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of +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. +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, +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 +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 +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 +Swedish voices are made available. Additional languages and voices will be available in the context of the MBROLA project. Some of these voices are available as mbrolavox-* packages, in the -NetBSD packages system. For otheres, please consult the mbrola +NetBSD packages system. For others, please consult the mbrola project's home page. - -http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis |