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diff --git a/system/rhvoice/README b/system/rhvoice/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4025b886e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/rhvoice/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +RHVoice is a free and open-source speech synthesizer. + +RHVoice uses statistical parametric synthesis. It relies on existing +open-source speech technologies (mainly HTS and related software). + +Voices are built from recordings of natural speech. They have small +footprints, because only statistical models are stored on users' +computers. And though the voices lack the naturalness of the +synthesizers which generate speech by combining segments of the +recordings themselves, they are still very intelligible and resemble +the speakers who recorded the source material. + +Supported languages +Initially, RHVoice could speak only Russian. Now it also supports: + +American and Scottish English +Brazilian Portuguese +Esperanto +Georgian +Ukrainian +Kyrgyz +Tatar +Macedonian +Albanian +Polish + +RHVoice can be used via speech-dispatcher. + |