rhdunn / espeak

eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports 101 languages and accents.
http://reecedunn.co.uk/espeak-for-android
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Support for regional CJK accents #127

Open 01wave10 opened 6 years ago

01wave10 commented 6 years ago

some text-to speech examples from various websites (find free demos) also even espeak some CJK vocels/accents sound very strange/strong

that maybe due to accent variations : e.g. Taishanese early wave e-migrating before mainstream (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese)

ekho's cantonese setting, does reasonable quality can this be used to re-tune the vowels?

Note: tonal language's tone curves in espeak are rather inadequate, it looses a lot of nuance that affect how the words sound and also contributes to the accent

also should improve espeak's voice settings (MAX-MIN pitch) should it do rather, central pitch(geomean) and relative-ratios between max&min