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Re: Speech Synthetisiser for iPaQ running Linux

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From: Brian Delaney
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:34
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>Is it a good choice beside the problem of floating point calculation ?
>What would be the choice ?
>
>Some of the replies I got from my first post outline the fact that Festival
>as most of the speech processing tool software use floating point
>calculation. The IpaQ ARM processor are not able to perform this kind of
>calculation. So a significant effort may be requiered to port.
>Is it the case as well with rsynth ?
>Does anybody knows any speech synthetisiser usable under Linux, free and
>open source that is not using floating point calculation ?


Take a look at "Flite" at CMU.  Its a lightweight Festival system
specifically for small devices.
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/index.html
It should do what you need, but I don't think it has been released yet.





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Brian W. Delaney <brian.delaney@ece.gatech.edu>
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
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