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From: andrewh@ee.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Hunt)
Subject: Re: Speech synthesis on a SPARC?
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In article <62025@mimsy.umd.edu>, furuta@cs.umd.edu (Richard Furuta) writes:
|> I would appreciate pointers to programs that produce synthesized speech on
|> Sun Sparcstations.  I'm sorry for the FAQ-like nature of this question (I
|> tried scanning back in this group as far as I could on two different systems
|> without finding any leads).  Thanks in advance.


The Draft FAQ includes the following entry.

Package:     Text to Speech program
Platform:    Sun SPARC
Description: Text to speech program based on concatenation of pre-recorded
             speech segments.  A function library can be used to integrate
             speech output into other code.
Hardware:    SPARC audio I/O
Availablity: by FTP from "wilma.cs.brown.edu" as /pub/speak.tar.Z


The output is pretty rough but useful for many applications.

There is a very good synthesis system for SPARCs (and some other UNIX platforms)
called "Orator".  I am trying to get details for the FAQ at the moment.

Andrew Hunt
andrewh@ee.su.oz.au
