From: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Phoneme prog/data for SGI Indigo?
Date: 7 Oct 1992 22:37:45 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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In article <1992Oct7.145716.20508@Princeton.EDU> lseltzer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Linda Ann Seltzer) writes:
>>Does anybody have a Phoneme-based or just plain
>>ANY speech generation program for the Indigo?
>
>There are two parts to a speech synthesis system: (1) the program
>that synthesizes the samples and (2) the rules which provide the
>proper information to the synthesizer program.  Dennis Klatt's
>1980 JASA paper contains Fortran code that you can translate to
>C for generating the sound samples.  There are errors in the
>paper and in the Fortran program, though. 

If you know what the errors are, please post a list.
The brown package (ftpable see 2 messages later)
includes a translation of the klatt
synthesizer translated to C, as well as some higher
order algorithms to go from phonemes to params, incorporating
Klatt's duration rules.

Some info on NRL and MITalk is given below...
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From: decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-viking!wasser_1@Ucb-Vax.ARPA
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Subject: Final English-to-Phoneme version!
Date: 15 Apr 85 21:58:34 GMT

                        Final Version of
                ENGLISH TO PHONEME TRANSLATION
                           4/15/85

Here it is one last time.  I have fixed all of the bugs I heard about
and added a new feature or two (it now talks money as well as
numbers).  I think that this version is good enough for most purposes.
I have proof-read the phoneme rules (found one bug) and made the
program more "robust".  I added protection against the "toupper()"
problem some people had with earlier versions.

If you make a major addition (like better abbreviation handling or an
exception dictionary) please send me a copy.  As before, this is all
public domain and I make no copyright claims on it.  The part derived
from the Naval Research Lab should be public anyway.  Sell it if you
can!

                -John A. Wasser

Work address:
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Easynet:        VIKING::WASSER
Telephone:      (617)486-2505
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                Littleton, MA  01460


   The files that make up this package are:

          ENGLISH.C       Translation rules.
          PHONEME.C       Translate a single word.
          PARSE.C         Split a file into words.
          SPELLWORD.C     Spell an ASCII character or word.
          SAYNUM.C        Say a cardinal or ordinal number (long int).

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**FILE**        End of Distribution
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                -John A. Wasser

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MITalk is available under license agreement for use at academic 
insitutions for a price of $200.  If you would like to acquire a copy of 
the code, please fill out and have a duly authorized representative of 
your organization sign two copies of the enclosed agreement and return 
them to me.  Upon receipt, I will have them both signed on behalf of MIT 
and one fully executed original returned for your files.

We distribute MITalk on 9-track.  its written in Fortran and C. for a 
DEC System 20 TOPS-20 Op.Sys.

peter richards
mit technology licensing
e32-300
cambridge, ma 02139
usa

617 253 6966
617 258 6790 fax
par@eagle.mit.edu
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