Fwd: Fw: Sun Microsystems Laboratories releases an open source speech synthesizer

[Gregory Nowak]

Hey, if I'm not mistaken, this could also be a tts engine for windblows since it's in java. I somehow don't see it working with speakup because of that.
Greg


On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:14:03PM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hello.  Basically, for those who do not want to read, this is a speech 
> synthesizer in Java.  Could this work with Speakup?
> 
> 
> >Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 6:01 PM
> >Subject: FWD: Sun Microsystems Laboratories releases an open source
> >speech synthesizer
> >
> >
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Attached is an announcement from my colleague Willie Walker of the Sun
> >Labs
> >Speech Group of the availability of FreeTTS, a speech synthesis engine
> >written in the Java(tm) programming language and released under a
> >BSD-style
> >license.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Peter Korn
> >Sun Accessibility team
> >
> >
> >-------- Original Message --------
> >From: Willie Walker <william.walker at sun.com>
> >Subject: Sun Microsystems Laboratories releases an open source speech
> >synthesizer
> >
> >Greetings!
> >
> >It is my pleasure to announce that the Sun Microsystems Laboratories
> >Speech Group has made its FreeTTS (http://freetts.sourceforge.net/)
> >speech synthesis engine available via open source through a BSD-style
> >license.  The engine is written entirely in the Java(tm) programming
> >language and provides partial support for the synthesis portion
> >of the Java Speech API 1.0 specification.
> >
> >You can read more about this project in an article on
> >http://java.sun.com:
> >
> >     http://java.sun.com/features/2001/12/flite.html
> >
> >An excerpt from the article is as follows:
> >
> >   "Researchers from Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Burlington,
> >    Massachusetts have created an open source speech synthesis engine
> >    written entirely in the Java(tm) programming language. This
> >    high-performance software converts text to speech. You type it;
> >    your workstation speaks it. And the whole world benefits.
> >
> >    Willie Walker, Paul Lamere, and Philip Kwok combined the Festival
> >    Speech Synthesis System, with its robust architecture, and the Flite
> >    engine, with its succinct algorithms, to create FreeTTS, a
> >synthesizer
> >    that delivers both power and flexibility.
> >
> >    The team ported Flite, programmed in C, and Festival, written in C++
> >    and Scheme, to the Java programming language. FreeTTS generated
> >    intelligible speech four weeks after researchers wrote the first line
> >    of code. But even with such a short development time, the team did
> >not
> >    compromise results. FreeTTS outperforms both original applications,
> >    executing nearly four times faster than Flite in some environments."
> >
> >For the Sun Labs Speech Group,
> >
> >Willie Walker,
> >Manager and Principal Investigator
> 
> 
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