Michael Hansen
Michael Hansen
Hi @king-dahmanus, thanks for your feedback! I would definitely be interested in adding SAPI5 support for Windows in order to make Larynx more accessible to everyone. I'll have to look...
Do you, or anyone you know, have a pleasant voice, a good microphone, and a lot of patience? :slightly_smiling_face: I've worked with several people to create text to speech datasets....
The Common Voice datasets are excellent, but not ideal for a text to speech voice. For text to speech, you want a lot of high quality data from very few...
I've noticed this too with certain voices. I think this may be an artifact of my training process: I may be trimming off too much silence from the end of...
It seems related to surrounding words. If you have it say "la table" or "le banc", then the "t" and "b" sounds come through. I'm not sure about "rez-de-chaussée", though....
This might be partially related to https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx/issues/7 Without doing between-word stuff like liasons explicitly in [gruut](https://github.com/rhasspy/gruut), the model is forced to figure out how to blend across word boundaries (`#`)....
Sorry to have been out of this discussion for a while. I'm getting close to a refactored release of gruut (in the `refactor` branch) as version 1.0. The tokenizer/phonemizer code...
Actually, I take that back. The hyphen shows up in the lexicon as part of words, so it needs to be left in.
I decided not to process the hyphen as a punctuation character. It would make things too difficult.
From gruut's point of view, yes, a French hyphen is a letter ;)