Open Source Text Processing Project: CMU Flite

CMU Flite: a small, fast run time synthesis engine Project Website: http://www.festvox.org/flite/ Github Link: None Description CMU Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time open source text to speech synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: MaryTTS

MaryTTS: The MARY Text-to-Speech System Project Website: http://mary.dfki.de/ Github Link: None Description MaryTTS is an open-source, multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis platform written in Java. It was originally developed as a collaborative project of DFKI’s Language Technology Lab and the Institute of … Continue reading

Text Processing Book: Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft) Project Website: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ Description   Chapter Slides Relation to 2nd ed. 1: Introduction [Ch. 1 in 2nd ed.] 2: Regular Expressions, Text Normalization, and Edit Distance Text [pptx] [pdf] Edit Distance [pptx] [pdf] … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: Festival

The Festival Speech Synthesis System Project Website: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Github Link: None Description Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: eSpeak

eSpeak text to speech Project Website: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Github Link: None Description eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows. http://espeak.sourceforge.net eSpeak uses a “formant synthesis” method. This allows many languages … Continue reading