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- From: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu (Ben Bryant)
- Subject: PD Sparc TTS systems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.134744.1725@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Reply-To: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu
- Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:47:44 GMT
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- Hello again all,
- I have recently been trying to find out about various PD software availability
- for the Sparc architecture (IPCs, IPXs, Sparc 1+s, or Sparc 2s). I have found
- two programs that I have compiled and listened to, and I was really not to
- impressed with the produced voice quality. -Not to in any way demean the authors,
- because I am sure that they both required much effort. The two were the Brown U.
- system "scat" and the Klatt system "gen". Does anyone know of any other PD synths
- that are more natural sounding (particularly ones that would in some way "smooth"
- phoneme transitions - giving better between phoneme coarticulation effects)? Or
- does anyone know of where I might be able to get some PD "fixes" to the above
- two synths to incorporate this inter-phoneme "smoothing" effect? Thanks in
- advance.
- -Benjamin Bryant
- <bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu>
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