>From: Gilles Casse <gcasse@oralux.org>
>Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:53:29 +0100
>To: ML blinux-list <blinux-list@redhat.com>
>Subject: FW: OpenMary: Open Source Emotional Text-to-Speech Synthesis System
> Released
>
>From: Marc Schröder <schroed at dfki.de>
>Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:49:34 +0100
>
>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
>
>The landscape of open source speech synthesizers is growing richer. The
>German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), partner in
>the Network of Excellence HUMAINE on emotion-oriented computing, has
>decided to release its emotional text-to-speech synthesis system MARY as
>open source.
>
>The system can be downloaded from http://mary.dfki.de
>
>MARY is a multi-lingual (German, English, Tibetan) and multi-platform
>(Windows, Linux, MacOs X and Solaris) speech synthesis system. It comes
>with an easy-to-use installer -- no technical expertise should be
>required for installation.
>
>Main features:
>
>* easy installation using web-based installer
> - modularity: only install the components you need
> - automated dependency checks: missing components can be downloaded
> automatically
> http://mary.dfki.de/download
>
>* several languages and voices
> - German, English and Tibetan synthesis
> - MBROLA and LPC diphone voices
> - CMU ARCTIC cluster unit selection voices
> - limited domain voices
>
>* expressive speech synthesis
> - With the tool "EmoSpeak", MARY can synthesize emotionally expressive
> speech using diphone voices
> - Expressive unit selection voices exist
> (e.g., a German football announcer)
>
>* Markup support
> - MARY can read and interpret several markup languages, including
> SSML (speech synthesis markup language) and
> APML (agent player markup language)
> - Timing information for Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) and
> Talking Heads
> - High parametrisability of prosody, e.g. for emotion expression,
> information status, etc.
>
>* Stable client-server architecture
> - Multi-threaded Java server, can be used in web applications
> - GUI client is easy to use and powerful
> - Example implementations of clients in other programming languages
>
>* Incremental processing
> - synthesized speech is produced incrementally as the input is
> processed
> It can be sent to the client as an audio stream, so that the delay
> until the first sound is played is short even for large files
>
>* Mailing list
> - MARY users are invited to subscribe to the mary-users mailing list:
> http://www.dfki.de/mailman/listinfo/mary-users
>
>* Development environment
> - OpenMary development is based on a modern Trac-based system,
> featuring SVN-based source code versioning, ticket-based bug
> reports, and wiki-based documentation:
> http://mary.opendfki.de
> - Project definition files for importing the source code into Eclipse
> - Javadoc available online:
> http://mary.dfki.de/javadoc
> - Plans for future releases include full unit selection support,
> JSAPI support, accessibility support for the client, and more.
> Volunteers are very welcome! For details, see:
> http://mary.opendfki.de/report/1
>
>* Licenses
> - the core OpenMary system, including English and Tibetan components,
> is released as open source under a BSD-style license;
> - the German components are released under a DFKI research license;
> - MBROLA binaries and voice databases are available under a
> non-commercial and non-military license.
>
>Try it out! -- http://mary.dfki.de
>
>--
>Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher
>DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
>http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
>Here. Now. Real, first-person experience. Am I there to witness it?
>
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