[Hamara-devel] Hamara accessibility

[Krishnakant]

Just a quick update,
There is a speech synthesizer called Festival, there are some pretty 
good voices like embrola which can be further modified to make them even 
better sounding.
So we will not have to do a lot of work from scratch.
And making the Indian voices is going to be very easy.
CDAC had done some work on this but as usual they hide their work and ar 
not fre and open source by the real spirit.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.



On Saturday 06 February 2016 11:12 PM, Krishnakant wrote:
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> On Saturday 06 February 2016 10:56 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 06/02/16 17:33, Krishnakant wrote:
>>> Secondly, I think we must take some eferts to build good quality 
>>> Indian voices, including Indian English so that Hamara becomes 
>>> truely Indian in all aspects. 
>> We had a discussion in one of the conferences (Pune?) last year and 
>> there was someone there who was working with young people to create 
>> audio stories.
>>
>> We did briefly touch on asking those groups if they would be 
>> interested in helping create new voices - do you recall who that 
>> person was?
>
> I am trying to get the name but I can't recall.
> none the less, there are people in IIT who have been interested and 
> they are in touch wiht me.
> We can also get some studio arrangements for doing this stuff.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.