Sunday 15 July 2007

jTTS source code uploaded

Well, there isn't really that much exciting news to report, other than that things are one step closer to getting a jTTS release. Yesterday marked the import of the jTTS source code tree into the CVS repository at SourceForge. The code is currently in a quite usable state, though there is still some cleanup and fixing to be done before a release can really take place. There is also quite a lot of work left in the realm of a testsuite for jTTS.

The most notable contributions in jTTS right now is the support for a British English voice ("roger") along with the OALD lexicon. Part-of-speech tagging also has been improved dramatically by using the same mechanisms as Festival, using a Part-of-speech lexicon along with an n-grammar. Expect to see more use of the n-grammar support in the future.

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