Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Development of gnuspeech project
From:
Paul Tyson
Subject:
Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Development of gnuspeech project
Date:
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:06:53 -0500
I suggest we all (Marcelo, Sina, and I) apply to join the gnuspeech project. Marcelo, send your admin request again to maintainers@gnu.org. Maybe the first was lost. We may need to follow up with email to gvc@gnu.org (GNU volunteer coordinator).
Regards
—Paul
On Mar 21, 2023, at 06:29, Marcelo Mat <marcmodroid@gmail.com> wrote:
I have been interested in this for a long time, but only as a
hobbyist. It is far removed from my daily work. I would like to
see an active open-source project for articulatory speech
synthesis, but I don't have many skills to contribute. I could
perhaps help with testing and documentation. I don't know much
about text-to-speech, c++ development, or open-source project
administration.
If gnuspeech is to continue as a GNU package, it will first need
a new admin. Are any of the current members interested in becoming
admin? If so, send a note to maintainers@gnu.org. I'm not sure the
GNU organization knows about David Hill's passing, or that the
project needs a new maintainer.
Regards,
--Paul
On 3/20/23 16:09, Marcelo Matuda wrote:
Hi Sina,
Currently this project doesn't have an admin, after David
Hill passed away last year.
You don't like the UI? :)
Marcelo
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at
11:34 AM Sina Fesahati(Encrypted Messaging) via
gnuspeech-contact <gnuspeech-contact@gnu.org>
wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've recently become familiar with gnuspeech(or GNU Speech)
project by chance when I was discovering FTP server of GNU
project.
The most interesting part of this project for me was about
academical papers and models used to develop backend side of
application (which mainly participated by professor David
Hill).
However this project unfortunately never got any update or
development since 2015 , as a result I have interested to
develop and also try to revive gnuspeech project for demand
of open source community in generating TTS content and rely
on software to use commercial and non-commercial use without
fear of non-open-source licensing problems.
I also have some recommendations for the future versions of
gnuspeech:
-Ability to speech recognition
-Improving algorithms with recently published papers and
mathematical models in sound engineering and other related
branches(especially open access articles).
-Modern User Interface (also opportunities for contributions
related to graphical design)
-Maybe alternative for commercial virtual assistants :)