- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:54:32 -0500
- To: "User Agent Working group list" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <william.walker@SUN.COM> To: <JAVA-ACCESS@JAVA.SUN.COM> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:52 PM Subject: FreeTTS 1.1 is now available Hi: FreeTTS 1.1, a speech synthesizer written entirely in the Java(tm) programming language, is now available. FreeTTS 1.1 is available from http://freetts.sourceforge.net/ and includes a number of functional changes since 1.0: o Testing with both the Release Candidate and Beta 3 versions of the Java(tm) 2 Platform, Standard Edition version 1.4 software (J2SE 1.4). o Incorporation of most of Flite 1.1 (thanks again, Alan Black and Kevin Lenzo, for your hard work!). The only features we did not include were the fixed point operations and some work to reduce the footprint for very small platforms. o A workaround for the audio crash on Linux. There are still some issues, however, and we've been in close contact with the Java Sound developers. We hope to see a fix for these issues somewhere in the J2SE 1.4.1 time frame. o Better support for building and running on Windows platforms. Note that this requires the Cygwin tools available from http://www.cygwin.com/. NOTE: To be more in line with the JDK, we now use the JAVA_HOME environment variable instead of JDK_HOME. Please take note of this change because it may come and bite you if you ignore it. Alan and Kevin did a lot of work on the Flite 1.1 front end: it is now much more clever in converting tokens to words. The upgrade to 1.1 is also geared towards making FreeTTS more amenable to voices created using the great work at FestVox (see http://festvox.org/). I really want to encourage people to look at FestVox and help us work on FestVox tools to generate voice data for FreeTTS. For the Sun Microsystems Laboratories Speech Team, Willie Walker, Manager and Principal Investigator Paul Lamere, Staff Engineer Philip Kwok, Member of Technical Staff ======================================================================== === To unsubscribe, send email to listserv@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA-ACCESS". For general help, send email to listserv@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "help".
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