ru_tts speech synthesizer
An alternative implementation of the Phonemophone-5 Russian speech
synthesizer by the international laboratory of intelligent systems
BelSInt (the Speech Recognition and Synthesis Lab of the Institute of
Technical Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian
SSR). The source code of the original implementation has been lost. This
implementation is the result of a reverse engineering of the SDRV
resident speech driver for MS-DOS, and it is officially approved for
publication under a free license by Boris Lobanov, who is the head of
the laboratory and the author of the design solutions that formed the
basis of the speech synthesizer, and Alexander Ivanov, who is an
engineer of the laboratory and the developer of the speech synthesizer’s
the original software implementation.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the following organizations and people for their
contributions to the project:
- the international laboratory of intelligent systems BelSInt for the
development of the original SDRV resident speech driver;
- Dmitry Paduchikh for help in the initial disassembly of the SDRV
resident speech driver;
- Boris Lobanov for the creation of the Phonemophone-5 speech
synthesizer and approval of the publication of the results of a reverse
engineering of the SDRV resident speech driver under a free
license.
- Alexander Ivanov for the development of the original software
implementation of the Phonemophone-5 speech synthesizer and approval of
the publication of the results of a reverse engineering of the SDRV
resident speech driver under a free license.
Scientific publications
In any papers or publications that use or mentioned the design
solutions of the Phonemophone-5 speech synthesizer, please cite the
following article:
- Ivanov A.N., Lobanov B.M. - PHONEMOPHONE speech synthesizer for CAD
based on IBM PC // Abstracts report conf. “Theory and methods of
creating intelligent CAD systems”. - Minsk, 1992. - pp. 29-30 (in
Russian).
The above article is a basic publication about the original
implementation of the Phonemophone-5 speech synthesizer for MS-DOS.
The microwave speech synthesis method developed by Boris Lobanov and
used in the Phonemophone-5 is also described in the following scientific
publications:
- Lobanov B.M. - Microwave Speech Synthesis // Automatic recognition
of auditory images (ARAI-16). - Moscow, 1991. - pp. 27-31 (in
Russian).
- Lobanov B.M. - Microwave Speech Synthesis from Text // Analysis and
speech synthesis. - Minsk: the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of the
ASB, 1991. - pp. 57-73 (in Russian).
- Lobanov B.M. - Programming Model of Microwave Speech Synthesis from
Text // Automatic recognition of auditory images (ARAI-14). - Moscow,
1991. - pp. 82-84 (in Russian).
- Lobanov B. - Microwave Speech Synthesis from Text // Proc. of the 24
Fachkolloquim Informationstechnik. - Dresden, 1991. - pp. 118-120.
(For the original Russian titles of the scientific publications, see
the Russian version of ReadMe.)
There are several projects related to ru_tts speech synthesizer:
- RuLex - Russian
pronunciation dictionary for ru_tts
- RU_TTS_EX -
extension to facilitate work with high-level languages and implement
additional synthesizer capabilities