Bug#1055879: ITP: ru-tts -- Compact and portable Russian speech synthesizer
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Igor B. Poretsky" <poretsky@mlbox.ru>
* Package name : ru-tts
Version : 6.2.0
Upstream Author : Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru>
* URL : https://github.com/poretsky/ru_tts
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: C
Description : Compact and portable Russian speech synthesizer
An alternative implementation of the Phonemophone-5 Russian speech
synthesizer by the international laboratory of intelligent systems
BelSInt (the Speech Recognition and Synthesis Lab of the Institute of
Technical Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian
SSR). The source code of the original implementation has been lost.
This implementation is the result of a reverse engineering of
the SDRV resident speech driver for MS-DOS, and it is officially
approved for publication under a free license by Boris Lobanov, who is
the head of the laboratory and the author of the design solutions that
formed the basis of the speech synthesizer, and Alexander Ivanov,
who is an engineer of the laboratory and the developer of
the speech synthesizer's the original software implementation.
It is extremely fast, compact and portable indeed. Meanwhile, it
provides quite decent speech quality. Being implemented as a library,
it can easily be used in other applications.
Currently need a sponsor for upload.
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