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Alan W Black est sans doute le moteur principal des développements de Festival puis de Flite. Vous pourrez lire ci-dessous un message très récent dans lequel il répond sur d'éventuelles nouvelles versions de ces logiciels. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que Festival est stable et devrait peu évoluer. On peut donc avancer sur ce socle sans en être renversé par de trop fréquents changements de caps (versions). La moins bonne, c'est que la nouvelle technologie - Festival Lite - plus performante et légère manque de volontaires et/ou de sponsors. De son côté, l'effort de A W Black apparaît dirigé vers la passerelle entre Festival/Festvox et Flite ... ce qui sera une très bonne chose. Bonne lecture ... et appel à bonnes volontés pour la francisation de Festival. -- Phil -------- Original Message -------- Subject: New releases of programs Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 19:33:36 -0400 From: Alan W Black <awb@cs.cmu.edu>To: Artur Red¼ko <a_redzko@ds2.pg.gda.pl>CC: "festvox-talk" <festvox-talk@festvox.org>,"Alan W Black"<awb@cs.cmu.edu>References: <000801c1f940$a0567b90$b849c0d5@demon> From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Artur_Red=BCko?= <a_redzko@ds2.pg.gda.pl> > > Hello > > I've noticed that there has been no new versions released since = > long, long time of FESTIVAL , FESTVOX and FLITE. Are there any new = > versions of these programs avaliable ? Sorry, I have more responsibilities these days. Festival's last release was July last year, Festival itself is in a fairly stable position, and releases will continue to be bug fixes and small enhancements. Though we are due for new release, particularly with support for a bunch of different audio drivers (that like to generate chipmunk speak). However, the more interesting work is in voice building tools and flite. Though we have been doing some work with Prof Keiichi Tokuda of Nagoya Institute of technology on HMM synthesis and hope to fold in support for that soon. Festvox's last release was some time ago though there are later versions in http://festvox.org/latest/. I have had a bunch of students working on voice building over the last semester which has produced better support for building new languages. As well as good feedback from the list with others using the code. I have yet to fold that into Festvox (and test it) as well as update the document. Flite's last release was Dec 31st, which I consider very recent. The next important enhancement wont be in Flite itself but in the tools for converting Festvox voices for Flite. Back in Edinburgh there were three and a half full time staff working on Festival development plus students, while now its much less (though there are far more users). I have submitted a number of grants to get funding for support of Festival/Flite and the CMU Speech Recognition tools but people don't like to fund things like that directly (though everyone uses it). Cepstral, LLC our own spin off company does contribute to Flite and Festival (and indirectly to FestVox), but that's not their primary interest. I am however still hopeful that the whole CMU Speech Tools suite will get funding and continue to grow (Sun is already funding some aspects of the speech recongiser). Alan Alan W Black email: awb@cs.cmu.eduLanguage Technologies Institute http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/ Carnegie Mellon University tel: +1-412-268-6299 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15213, USA. fax: +1-412-268-6298 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: biglux-unsubscribe@savage.iut-blagnac.frFor additional commands, e-mail: biglux-help@savage.iut-blagnac.fr