Debian Accessibility Project
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Speech Synthesis
Debian Accessibility Speech Synthesis

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Speech Synthesis and related APIs or applications.

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daisy-player
riproduttore per gli audio-libri digitali DAISY
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Daisy-player è un riproduttore a riga di comando per gli audio-libri basati sul protocollo DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System - sistema di informazione accessibile digitalmente). È paragonabile ai riproduttori commerciali in termini di funzionalità, caratteristiche e facilità d'utilizzo, e ha una semplice interfaccia utente adatta ai terminali Braille.

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eflite
server Emacspeak per parlato basato su Festival-Lite
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EFlite è un server per parlato per Emacspeak e altri lettori dello schermo che permette loro di interfacciarsi con Festival Lite, un motore da-testo-a-parlato libero sviluppato al CMU Speech Center come derivato di Festival.

A causa delle limitazioni ereditate dal suo backend, EFlite al momento fornisce solo la gestione della lingua inglese.

espeak
software di sintesi vocale multilingua
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eSpeak è un software di sintesi vocale per l'inglese e alcune altre lingue.

eSpeak produce un parlato inglese di buona qualità. Usa un metodo di sintesi vocale differente da altri motori opensource da testo a parlato (TTS) e suona abbastanza diversamente. Probabilmente non è altrettanto naturale e "pulito", ma alcuni trovano l'articolazione più chiara e semplice da ascoltare per lunghi periodi.

Può essere eseguito come programma a riga di comando per leggere un testo da un file o dallo standard input.

  • Include differenti voci, le cui caratteristiche possono essere modificate;
  • può produrre un parlato in output come file WAV;
  • può tradurre testo in codici di fonemi, in questo modo può essere adattato come interfaccia per un altro motore di sintesi vocale;
  • potenzialità per altre lingue: sono incluse più di 40 lingue;
  • dimensione compatta: il programma e i dati occupano in tutto 350 kbyte;
  • è scritto in C++.
flite
piccolo motore di sintesi vocale in tempo reale
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Flite è un motore di sintesi vocale in tempo reale piccolo e veloce. È l'ultima aggiunta alla collezione di strumenti di software libero di sintesi, come il sistema di sintesi vocale Festival dell'università di Edimburgo e gli strumenti, script e documentazione per la creazione di voci sintetiche del progetto FestVox dell'università Carnegie Mellon. Tuttavia flite non necessita di nessuno di questi sistemi per funzionare.

Attualmente gestisce solamente le lingue inglese e indo-arie.

Questo pacchetto contiene gli eseguibili e la documentazione.

speech-dispatcher
interfaccia comune ai sintetizzatori vocali
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Speech Dispatcher fornisce uno strato indipendente dalle periferiche alla sintesi vocale. Gestisce, come backend, diversi sintetizzatori vocali software e hardware e fornisce alle applicazioni un livello generico per la sintetizzazione vocale e la riproduzione di dati PCM tramite questi differenti backend.

Diversi concetti di alto livello come personalizzazioni specifiche di applicazioni e riproduzione vocale in coda o interrompendo il parlato sono implementati in una modalità indipendente dal dispositivo, in questo modo chi implementa le applicazioni non è costretto a dover ancora una volta reinventare la ruota.

Questo pacchetto contiene Speech Dispatcher medesimo.

speech-tools
Edinburgh Speech Tools - binari utente
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Questo pacchetto contiene i vari programmi utilissimi che usano e accompagnano la libreria Edinburgh Speech Tools. In questo pacchetto sono inclusi software audio e alcuni software per l'elaborazione base dei segnali.

Sono disponibili i seguenti programmi:

 na_play: programma di riproduzione generico per l'uso con net-audio e
          CSTR ao;
 ch_wave: programma di conversione di forme d'onda;
 ch_lab: programma di conversione delle etichette dei file;
 ch_track: programma di conversione dei file traccia;
 wagon: un programma per la costruzione e il test di alberi CART.

Per un elenco dettagliato dei programmi disponibili si veda /usr/share/doc/speech-tools/README .

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festvox-ru
voce maschile russa per Festival
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Questo pacchetto fornisce il supporto per il russo al sistema di sintesi vocale Festival.

freetts
sistema di sintesi vocale
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee
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FreeTTS è un sistema di sintesi vocale scritto interamente nel linguaggio di programmazione Java™. È basato su Flite, un piccolo motore di sintesi vocale sviluppato all'Università Carnegie Mellon. Flite a sua volta è derivato da Festival Speech Synthesis System dell'Università di Edimburgo e dal progetto FestVox dell'Università Carnegie Mellon.

gespeaker
frontend GTK+ per eSpeak e mbrola
Maintainer: Fabio Castelli
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Gespeaker è un frontend GTK+ per eSpeak e mbrola. Permette di riprodurre un testo in molte lingue con impostazioni per voce, tono, volume, velocità e pausa tra le parole.

Dalla versione 0.6 può usare il pacchetto e le voci di mbrola per ottenere un'esperienza di lettura di testi più realistica.

recite
sintesi vocale per testi in inglese
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recite è un programma per la sintesi vocale. La qualità dei suoni prodotti non è perfetta, ma dovrebbe essere adeguata per riportare verbalmente gli occasionali messaggi di errore.

Dato un testo in inglese, recite lo converte in una serie di fonemi, poi converte i fonemi in una serie di parametri relativi all'apparato vocale e quindi sintetizza il suono che un apparato vocale produrrebbe per pronunciare la frase. recite può compiere anche solo un sottoinsieme di queste operazioni, può quindi essere usato per convertire un testo in fonemi o per generare una pronuncia basata su parametri vocali elaborati da un altro programma.

saytime
pronuncia l'ora attuale attraverso la scheda audio
Maintainer: Holger Levsen
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Dice l'ora attuale attraverso la scheda audio. Richiede un device di output sonoro disponibile.

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sonic
semplice utilità per velocizzare o rallentare il parlato
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Sonic è un'utilità molto semplice che legge e scrive file wav e li velocizza o rallenta, con una distorsione bassa. La nuova funzionalità chiave di Sonic rispetto ad altre librerie è la qualità estremamente alta a fattori di velocizzazione ben oltre 2X.

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speech-dispatcher-festival
modulo Festival per Speech Dispatcher
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Speech Dispatcher fornisce uno strato indipendente dalle periferiche alla sintesi vocale. Gestisce, come backend, diversi sintetizzatori vocali software e hardware e fornisce alle applicazioni un livello generico per la sintetizzazione vocale e la riproduzione di dati PCM tramite questi differenti backend.

Diversi concetti di alto livello come personalizzazioni specifiche di applicazioni e riproduzione vocale in coda o interrompendo il parlato sono implementati in una modalità indipendente dal dispositivo, in questo modo chi implementa le applicazioni non è costretto a dover ancora una volta reinventare la ruota.

Questo pacchetto contiene le dipendenze dai pacchetti necessari per eseguire Speech Dispatcher con Festival.

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cicero
French and English Text-To-Speech for MBROLA
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This Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine speaks French; a preliminary English support is also offered. The engine uses context-sensitive rules to produce phonemes from the text. It relies on MBROLA to generate actual audio output from the phonemes. The TTS engine is implemented using the Python programming language.

The upstream authors have come up with this TTS to try and meet their own needs as blind users. It's designed to be plugged as output to some screen-review software, firstly with BRLTTY. They favor speed and intelligibility over perfect pronunciation. Cicero is aimed to have a quick response time, the ability to quickly shut-up and skip to another utterance, intelligibility where it counts (not perfect pronunciation), the ability to track speech progression, relative simplicity (hackability) and relative small code size.

gnome-speech-dectalk
GNOME text-to-speech library (Fonix DECtalk engine support)
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The GNOME Speech library gives a simple yet general API for programs to convert text into speech, as well as speech input.

This package provides the source code required to compile a driver for the commercial DECtalk software speech synthesis engine and voices from Fonix (http://www.fonix.com/). Upon installation, it will automatically attempt to compile and install the dectalk-synthesis-driver binary required to use GNOME Speech with dectalk.

This package is only useful if the dectalk engine is already installed on the system.

gnome-speech-ibmtts
GNOME text-to-speech library (IBMTTS engine support)
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The GNOME Speech library gives a simple yet general API for programs to convert text into speech, as well as speech input.

This package provides the source code required to compile a driver for the commercial IBMTTS speech synthesis engine available from http://ttsynth.com/. Upon installation, it will automatically attempt to compile and install the voiavoice-synthesis-driver binary required to use GNOME Speech with IBMTTS.

This package is only useful if the IBMTTS (TTSynth) engine is already installed on the system.

gnome-speech-swift
GNOME text-to-speech library (Cepstral swift engine support)
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The GNOME Speech library gives a simple yet general API for programs to convert text into speech, as well as speech input.

This package provides the source code required to compile a driver for the commercial swift speech synthesis engine and voices from Cepstral (http://www.cepstral.com/). Upon installation, it will automatically attempt to compile and install the swift-synthesis-driver binary required to use GNOME Speech with swift.

This package is only useful if the swift engine is already installed on the system.

libttspico-utils
Small Footprint TTS (binaries)
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The SVOX Pico engine is a software speech synthesizer for German, English (GB and US), Spanish, French and Italian.

SVOX produces a clear and distinct speech output made possible by the use of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) algorithms.

This package contains binary files including pico2wave.

mbrola
Multilingual software speech synthesizer
Maintainer: Samuel Thibault
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roleprogram
soundspeech
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Mbrola is Thierry Dutoit's phonemizer for multilingual speech synthesis. The various diphone databases are distributed on separate packages, but they must be used with and only with Mbrola because of license matters. Read the copyright for details.

Mbrola itself doesn't provide full TTS. It is a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones. It takes a list of phonemes as input, together with prosodic information (duration of phonemes and a piecewise linear description of pitch), and produces speech samples on 16 bits (linear), at the sampling frequency of the diphone database.

Use Mbrola along with Freephone, cicero or espeak to have a complete text-to-speech in English.

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