Willie has just rolled a new release of FreeTTS, the speech synthesizer written entirely in the Java programming language. Check out the release announcement. Some notable changes with this release:
- Improvements to the emacspeak server demo
- Performance improvements for time-to-first-sample and cancel
- Improvements to the state name expansion logic
- Pronunciations for British Sterling and "not" sign
- New pronunciations for Linux terms
- Clarifications to speech.properties message
- Fix for -dump{Multi}Audio problem in freetts app
- Elimination of hang with JDK1.5
- Tools specifically for importing CMU ARCTIC Voices.
- Fix for MBROLA phoneme remapping
- Rudimentary internationalization to FestVox import.
- Support to build FreeTTS w/o requiring JSAPI
- Only build tests on demand (more freedom from JUnit)
If you want to try out FreeTTS, check out the Talking clock webstart demo.
