<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Marlon -</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">I'm not sure if this is useful for what you're doing, but you might want to check out the MBROLA project: (<a href="http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html">link</a>)</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">If you're a Max/MSP user, its subproject MaxMBROLA may also be of interest to you: <a href="http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html">link</a>.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
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</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ivan Marusic <i.m.klif@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "microsound@microsound.org" <microsound@microsound.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "microsound@or8.net" <microsound@or8.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:40 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [microsound] Speech/Diphone databases<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1200389807"><div><div>This is not exactly what you need but you
might want to check it out. Its free and multiplatform. It does some serious speech synthesis. However it is scientific program with steep learning curve. I experimented with it years ago and results were very interesting. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/">http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/</a></span><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 11. 6. 2014., at 22:36, Schumacher Marlon <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:marlon.m.schumacher@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:marlon.m.schumacher@gmail.com">marlon.m.schumacher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1200389807yqt4048877142" id="yiv1200389807yqt25361"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi there,</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>I'd like to fiddle a bit
with speech sounds and was wondering if anyone of this list would have links/know of freely available databases of speech sounds or diphones.</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Any hints welcome :)</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Cheers,</span><br clear="none"><span>Marlon</span><br clear="none"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>microsound mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:microsound@microsound.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org">microsound@microsound.org</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound">http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound</a></span><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt4048877142"
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