[mary-users] Getting running for Russian

[Michael Pozhidaev]

Hi Ingmar,

Thank you! Nickolay and me talked a bit, and I have tried what MaryTTS
is able to do for Russian at the moment. Yes, it is still, evidently, a
plenty of work to do to get proper quality. I will continue discussions
with Nickolay trying to understand what we can do with it. 

Anyway, there is one more important question to me please! What do you think, may we
expect Mary TTS response latensy suitable for real time navigation of
the blind on the computer?

Meaning, it is a general question, do you think that algorithmic
hardness of calculations in Mary TTS can be reasonably considered as
slow for real-time interaction?

It is difficult to me right now to try it experimentally, so let me
please just ask you about it. 

Thank you a lot! Whatever we find out about Mary TTS, I still think it is
a very interesting project. So I really would like to understand what we
can do to make it practically usable for the blind in Russia. 

Good luck! :))


Ingmar Steiner writes:

> Hi Michael,
>
> thanks for your message!
>
> Our Russian voice, provided several years ago by Nickolay Shmyrev, was
> not rebuilt for the recent v5.2 release of MaryTTS, but we're aware of
> this issue [^1] and expect to fix it shortly.
>
> In the meantime, you can install the Russian voice from a previous
> version of MaryTTS.
>
> Having said that, the Russian text pre-processing code has some
> limitations, e.g., numbers are silently ignored instead of being
> pronounced properly. Some work was started to address this [^2], but
> not completed.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> -Ingmar
>
> [^1]: https://github.com/marytts/marytts/issues/603
> [^2]: https://github.com/marytts/marytts/pull/534
>
> On 06.10.16 20:34, Michael Pozhidaev wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've just now come across Mary TTS and was very surprised reading
>> information about it. Looks very interesting, if it's possible to get
>> Russian speech of appropriate quality. Me and a couple of my colleagues
>> work on special environment for the blind (http://luwrain.org/?lang=en)
>> written completely on Java, so absence of pure Java TTS for Russian
>> caused a lot of difficulties for us. Our work is non-commercial, GPL v3
>> as well, so exactly Mary TTS suits us better than anything else.
>>
>> May I ask somebody to help  me get Mary TTS running for Russian shortly
>> or to let me listen examples of produced speech in Russian? Any help
>> would be very appreciable!
>>
>> Thank you a lot! Looking forward to help Mary TTS as well, if it could
>> be possible!
>>

-- 
Michael Pozhidaev. Tomsk, Russia.
Russian info page: http://www.marigostra.ru/
English info page: http://www.marigostra.com/