Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Quickstart for the latest Gnuspeech?

[Marcelo Y. Matuda]

Hi,

On 11/01/2015 03:45 PM, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
> Thanks for the links, and I agree a proper man page or quickstart
> guide would be super useful for end users! (and not just speech
> synthesis researchers)
>
> I checked out the YouTube videos, and I confess it was hard for me to
> understand what Gnuspeech was saying... Is there a reason why it
> doesn't sound nearly as natural as, say, Siri yet???

Siri uses a method called Unit Selection (AFAIK), which joins segments 
of recorded speech. That is why the quality can be so good.

Gnuspeech uses articulatory synthesis, which uses a mathematical model 
of the human vocal tract to synthesize the speech from scratch. It is 
very difficult to adjust the many parameters. Also GnuspeechSA is a C++ 
port of the original TTS_Server (for NeXTSTEP), developed a long time 
ago. It doesn't yet incorporate the research done in all these years. 
Hopefully articulatory synthesis will reach the quality of unit 
selection, but there is much work to do.

Regards,
Marcelo