Does anybody maintain MBrola_Server for Emacspeak ?

[Bart Bunting <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil's,

I used to maintain the mbrola server package.  I have done no work on
it for many years now.  i started using the IBM viavoice software as
an alternative.

As there are increasing problems with binary incompatibilities  with
viavoice, not to mention the fact that it is no longer distributed I
have recently been considering revitalising the mbrola server stuff
for emacspeak.

If there are others out there that are also interested please let me
know.

There is quite a bit of work that is required to get voice changes
working well.  I think it is doable though.

Let me know what you've done so far and perhaps we can work together
on getting things back in a workable state.  As i recall 1.4 is very
flaky.

Bart

Phil's Free writes:
 > I'd like to interface Emacspeak with a french phonetizer (Lia_Phon) and
 > I found out that Mbrola_server 1.4beta could be a rather good candidate
 > to achieve this task.
 > But I have some patches to suggest for the SoftSpeech Emacspeak server
 > included in Mbrola_server which has been developed in Paderborn
 > University and does not seem to have been updated since 1999.
 > 
 > Does anybody knows more about this software and how to contact its
 > present maintainer ... if any ? 
 > 
 > Regards.
 > -- 
 > Phil
 > http://CULTe.org/projets/biglux  Free Software for french speaking
 > visual impaired people
 > 
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