Subject: Re: Word lists in English and German From: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan <muralib@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:17:21 -0400------=_Part_34305_10736077.1145812641863 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I would suggest the voices built by www.cepstral.com Or if you want to build voices your self, and have audio data in German.. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ is pretty easy to use and install.. Murali On 4/23/06, Christian Kaernbach <auditory@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear List, > > Some weeks ago I asked for (recorded) word lists in English and German. > It seems there is no such database. Holger Mitterer suggested the use of > a speech synthesizer (Thanks, Holger). This might be a good alternative. > Do you have suggestions for speech synthesizers? Our requirements would > be: > * German and (US-)English voices > * Ease of use: > - feed in words (not phonetical transcriptions) > - easy to install > * Good quality of output > > Best regards, > Christian > > -- > Prof. Dr. Christian Kaernbach > Psychologische Methodik und computergest=FCtzte Modellierung > Institut f=FCr Psychologie > Karl-Franzens-Universit=E4t Graz > Schubertstr. 51 a > A-8010 Graz > Austria > www.kaernbach.de fechner.uni-graz.at > > ------=_Part_34305_10736077.1145812641863 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi,<br><br>I would suggest the voices built by <br><br><a href=3D"http://ww= w.cepstral.com">www.cepstral.com</a><br><br>Or if you want to build voices = your self, and have audio data in German..<br><br><a href=3D"http://www.cst= r.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/"> http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/</a><br><br>is pretty easy to us= e and install.. <br><br>Murali<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 4= /23/06, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Christian Kaernbach</b> <<a href= =3D"mailto:auditory@xxxxxxxx"> auditory@xxxxxxxx</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote= " style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0= .8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear List,<br><br>Some weeks ago I asked for (rec= orded) word lists in English and German. <br>It seems there is no such database. Holger Mitterer suggested the use o= f<br>a speech synthesizer (Thanks, Holger). This might be a good alternativ= e.<br>Do you have suggestions for speech synthesizers? Our requirements wou= ld be: <br>* German and (US-)English voices<br>* Ease of use:<br> - fe= ed in words (not phonetical transcriptions)<br> - easy to insta= ll<br>* Good quality of output<br><br>Best regards,<br>Christian<br><br>--<= br>Prof. Dr. Christian Kaernbach <br>Psychologische Methodik und computergest=FCtzte Modellierung<br>Institu= t f=FCr Psychologie<br>Karl-Franzens-Universit=E4t Graz<br>Schubertstr. 51 = a<br>A-8010 Graz<br>Austria<br><a href=3D"http://www.kaernbach.de">www.kaer= nbach.de </a> <a href=3D"http://fechner.uni-graz.at">fechner.uni-graz.at</a><br><br>= </blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_34305_10736077.1145812641863--