FreeTTS is an open source
speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
system written entirely in the
Java programming language
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. It is based upon
Flite. FreeTTS is an implementation of
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FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers.
Gnopernicus uses these in a number of places: to know when text should and should not be interrupted, to better concatenate speech, and to sequence speech in different voices. Benchmarks conducted by
Sun
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in 2002 on
Solaris showed that FreeTTS ran two to three times faster than Flite at the time.
History
As of June 2019, the newest version of that project originates from April 2017. Intensive development finished in March 2009 with release 1.2.2.
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Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
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Festival
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Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free speech synthesis software
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