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From: jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Joe Campbell)
Subject: Re: Voice synthesizer for SPARC IPC
Message-ID: <1992Dec2.080327.23859@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
Organization: The Great Beyond
References: <1992Dec1.152543.10730@alw.nih.gov>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 08:03:27 GMT
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In article <1992Dec1.152543.10730@alw.nih.gov> lwang@nss10.ninds.nih.gov (Lipo Wang) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I have been trying to get a voice synthesizer for my SPARC IPC, that
>can output voice from the built in speaker by inputting English text.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>I've obtained John Wasser's "speak.c" package by ftp from 
>"wilma.cs.brown.edu" (/pub/speak.tar.Z). 
>This program is referencing a non-standard 
>header file  <multimedia/libaudio.h>, which is
>not part of the Sun operating system.  In addition, the Makefile
>appears to be referencing an audio library, which is also not part of
>Sun OS.
>
>Would you help me to find them? 
>
>Thank you very much,
>
>
>        Dr. Lipo Wang			

Hi Lipo,
When I filled in the template for the comp.speech FAQ, I forgot to
include the following information I gave in the comp.dsp FAQ:

Q1.2.10: Where can I get text to speech conversion software?
 
Free (but not public domain) text to speech conversion software is
available via anonymous ftp from wilma.cs.brown.edu in the pub directory
as speak.tar.Z.  It will compile and run on a SPARC's built-in audio
after modifying speak.c with the path of your libaudio.h (e.g.,
/usr/demo/SOUND/libaudio.h).  It's a simple phoneme concatenation
system with commensurate synthesized speech quality (a directory of
phoneme audio files is included).  [Joe Campbell, jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil]

I hope this helps (I don't know if these files are still bundled with
the new Solaris).

Joe
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