festival-ru
May 8, 2009 12:35 pm GeneralTWIMC. If you want to hear Russian “text to speach”, you need the package maintained by Nickolay Shmyrev (really high quality). It was already packaged for Debian. I made nearly identical deb for ubuntu 9.04, in my PPA. Feel free to check and download.
But actually I would love to see that from the box in 9.10 repos. If you share that idea, please raise your voice in that “needs-packaging” bug.
It would also be cool to apply Russian voice to flite, so maemo-mapper/n810 would give directions in Russian…
PS A bit of annoyance. festival has funny effect: last ~0.3s of the sound sequence is doubled, which sounds like a person with some lexical defect. Is it between festival and alsa or what? It does not depend on the chosen voice, English or Russian
May 8th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Thanks for the ppa!
May 8th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Цвет ссылок не отличается от цвета основного текста, подчёркивания тоже нет — не userfriendly! 🙂
May 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Про юзерфрендли – это не ко мне, я использую дефолтный стиль. Сам оформительством заниматься точно не буду;)
May 8th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Ещё с зависимостями проблема:
“festival-ru:
Зависит: festival (>=1.96), но будет установлен 1.96~beta-7ubuntu1”
May 8th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Чорт бы побрал эти беты, никогда не поймешь что о них думает деб…
May 9th, 2009 at 3:37 am
How about putting it into Debian, that way Ubuntu and all the other Debian-derived distros can use it.
May 11th, 2009 at 8:32 am
2foo: it is already in debian, but for some reason ubuntu did not pick it. That is why I filed a bug. Then, it is up to the ubuntu folks – whether to pick it from debian or from me, the difference is nearly zero.