Initial release version of Gnuspeech (Monet and TRAcT) for the Macintosh under OS X

• Manual for the Tube Resonance Access Tool—TRAcT HILL, D.R. (2015) Gnuspeech TRAcT Manual 0.9
• Precompiled TRAcT Application for Mac OS X 10.6.x and up TRAcT Application V 0.9 in a .zip file
• Manual for the Speech Synthesis and Database Editing System—Monet HILL, D.R. (2015) Gnuspeech Monet Manual 0.9
• Precompiled Monet Application for Mac OS X 10.10.x Monet Application V 0.9 in a .zip file

Sample sounds from Gnuspeech

Male-Female-Child “Hello”synthesis comparison (sound files all ~3 MB)
(Composed by Leonard Manzara as a demonstration)

Additional examples illustrating full articulatory text-to-speech synthesis for male voice (examples chosen for interest rather than flattery)

Pat-a-pan	Lumberjack	The Chaos

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Gnuspeech links to the savannah web sites (Free Software Foundation)

• Gnuspeech project savannah site Gnuspeech project web site Note: downloads are available from “Download Area”

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• Gnuspeech project overview Gnuspeech overview

Papers and manuals relevant to Gnuspeech

• HILL, D.R. (2017) Low-level articulatory synthesis: A working text-tospeech solution and a linguistic tool. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 62(3): 1–40, 2017

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• History of the work on rhythm and intonation HILL, D.R. (2012) From Research to Application: Creating and Applying Models of British RP English Rhythm and Intonation , Melody and Harmony in Speech Vol. 14 (eds. Gibbon, D., Hirst, D. and Campbell, N.), Polish Phonetic Society, June. (Festschrift for Dr. Wiktor Jassem on his 90th. birthday)

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• AVIOS ’95 system theory paper HILL, D.R., MANZARA, L. & TAUBE-SCHOCK, C-R. (1995) Real-time articulatory speech-synthesis-by-rules. Proc. AVIOS '95 14th Annual International Voice Technologies Conf, San Jose, 12-14 September 1995, 27-44

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• Manual for the current Tube Resonance Access Tool—TRAcT HILL, D.R. (2015) Gnuspeech TRAcT Manual 0.9

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• Manual for the current Speech Synthesis and Database Editing System—Monet HILL, D.R. (2015) Gnuspeech Monet Manual 0.9

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• Conceptionary for speech and hearing HILL DR (2001) A conceptionary for speech and hearing in the context of machines and experimentation (This document is designed as an educational and reference tool).

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• Detailed information on the facilities in the original Gnuspeech HILL DR, MANZARA L & C-R SCHOCK (1995) Manual for the original NeXT Developer TextToSpeech kit The manual supplied for developers who wished to use the TextToSpeech Kit in their software offerings. A useful explanation of the facilities and how to use them as a developer—as opposed to the free-standing services offered as an extension to the operating system. Relevant to understanding the ported versions.

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• Models for rhythm and intonation HILL, D.R., SCHOCK, C-R & MANZARA, L. (1992) Unrestricted text-to-speech revisited: rhythm and intonation. Proc. 2nd. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 12th.-16th., 1219-1222 (This paper just barely predates the articulatory synthesis system—targetting the earlier formant-synthesizer-based system—but the account of our rhythm and intonation work is relevant to the articulatory system.)

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• Models for rhythm and intonation HILL, D.R. (1975b) Computer models for synthesising British English rhythm and intonation. Proc. 8th. Int. Cong. of Phonetic Sciences, Leeds, UK, Aug 17-23, paper 129 (This is an early paper as the rhythm and intonation work really got under way.)

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• Initial paper on investigation of isochrony in rhythm HILL, D.R., JASSEM, W. & WITTEN, I.H. (1979) A statistical approach to the problem of isochrony in spoken British English. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 9 (eds. H. & P. Hollien), 285-294, Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V. (An initial interpretation of our major rhythm study of British English rhythm.)

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• Investigation of isochrony in rhythm JASSEM, W., HILL, D.R. & WITTEN, I.H. (1984) Isochrony in English speech: its statistical validity and linguistic relevance. Pattern, Process and Function in Discourse Phonology (collection ed. Davydd Gibbon), Berlin: de Gruyter, 203-225 (The comprhensive paper digesting the results of our major study of British English rhythm.)

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• British English rhythm data and statistical analysis
• HILL, D.R. (1977) Some results from a preliminary study of British English speech rhythm. 94th. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, Dec 12-16 Research Report 78/26/5, 28pp (Presented to the 94th. Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. America, Miami, Dec 77)

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