[mary-users] AFAIA, a female German HMM voice - availability?

[Ingmar Steiner]

Dear Brigitte,

there may have been a slight misunderstanding.

On 7 Sep 2010, at 11:05, Ingmar Steiner wrote:

> AFAIA, a female German HMM voice is in preparation. 


http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/AFAIA

I'm sorry, but I can't give you a definite release date for the German female HMM voice you're after. This is something we can only do when there is time left over, and ATM we have more pressing matters to attend to.

Best wishes,

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On 11 Nov 2010, at 11:40, Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer wrote:

> Hi,
> reading that I return to an earlier question. I was told that a German HMM voice named AFAIA was on. 
> The question: when will it be available? 
> Cheers Brigitte
> 
> Am 11.11.2010 um 11:05 schrieb yang yue xiang:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> I did a simple test. 
>> 
>> (1)The quality is good. I think it is as good as NeoSpeech.
>> (2)If I copy from the wiki http://mary.opendfki.de/wiki/ProsodySpecificationSupport and test using RAWMARYXML, there are XML parsing error. I think it maybe due to web text encoding issue
>> 
>> (3)I only copy the <p> ...</p> from wiki to the MaryClient, it then works properly,
>> 
>> Now, I will look for more tutorial about Mary and understand more about it.
>> 
>>  Any good tutorial or info?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
>> Yang
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Ingmar Steiner <ingmar.steiner at dfki.de> wrote:
>> Hi Yang,
>> 
>> please read http://mary.opendfki.de/wiki/ProsodySpecificationSupport
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
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