[mary-dev] New release: MARY TTS 4.0 beta

[Marc Schroeder]

The MARY TTS team at DFKI has published a a first beta release of the 
new MARY 4.0 code. MARY 4.0 is a major cleanup over previous versions of 
MARY TTS.


Key features:

     * 100% Pure Java. All native libraries have been removed from the 
system. MARY should now run on any platform that has Java 1.5 or newer.
     * Fully open source. All code is now open source under the  LGPL, 
including German TTS. Voices are distributed under Creative Commons or 
BSD licenses.
     * New languages. We have added Turkish and Telugu synthesis for 
now, and have made it easy to add more languages and voices in the future.

MARY now comes with a toolkit for people who want to add support for new 
languages or build their own voices. There is detailed documentation for

     * creating initial support for a new language;
     * recording and building a unit selection voice; and
     * creating an HMM-based voice from the same recordings.


NOTE: This is beta software. It is not yet ready for production use. You 
are likely to find problems, and we would appreciate if you tell us 
about it.

More details and a download link can be found in the MARY TTS 4.0 beta 
Release Notes:
http://mary.opendfki.de/wiki/4.0beta


Kind regards,
Marc Schröder, Marcela Charfuelan, and Sathish Pammi


-- 
Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH
Coordinator EU FP7 Project SEMAINE http://www.semaine-project.eu
Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net
Team Leader DFKI Speech Group http://mary.dfki.de

Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Email: schroed at dfki.de
Phone: +49-681-302-5303
Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 
Saarbrücken, Germany
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
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Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313