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[hts-users:04172] Software Release "SALB", frontend for HTS

Dear colleagues,
 
we are pleased to announce the release of the
 
 SALB framework
  * Webpage: http://m-toman.github.io/SALB/
  * Github project: https://github.com/m-toman/SALB
 
The SALB framework
   - provides a frontend to hts_engine [1] through SAPI5, a command-line-interface and a C++ API for embedding in other applications.
   - comes with an example NSIS [4] script to aid building installer packages for distributing HTS voices as Microsoft Windows system voices.
   - incorporates flite [2] for text processing of English.
   - supports other languages through the ability to load Festival [3] format lexica and Letter-To-Sound rules (further preprocessing like number conversion can easily be added in C++).
   - compiles on MS Windows (>= Vista), Linux, Android, iOS.
   - includes a Visual Studio 2012 solution file for compiling the SAPI5 engine, CMake build files for everything else.
   - is released under liberal/MIT-like license [5].
 
We also provide a free (Austrian) German voice model of a male, professional speaker, including number conversion, a pronunciation lexicon with 14k entries and a set of Letter-To-Sound rules.
 
The SALB framework was developed in SALB [6], a Sparkling Science project funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy.
 
Best regards,
 
the SALB Team:
 
Markus Toman, Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus (FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)
Junichi Yamagishi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan; Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao (Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh)
 
 
[1] hts_engine: http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/
[2] flite: http://www.festvox.org/flite/
[3] Festival: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
[4] NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
[5] SALB license: https://github.com/m-toman/SALB/blob/master/COPYING
[6] SALB project: http://www.ftw.at/research-innovation/projects/salb?set_language=en