[I18NGR] Greek speech synthesizer

[Kostas Papadimas]

Προωθώ στη λίστα ένα μήνυμα που έλαβα από τον Jonathan τον δημιουργό του
Espeak.Όποιος έχει χρόνο και θέλει να βοηθήσει σσε αυτή την εφαρμογή
text to voice (που μας λείπουν στο ελέυθερο λογισμικό ιδιάιτερα με
υποστήριξη ελληνικών ας ρίξει μια ματιά..)

> I have written "eSpeak", an open source text-to-speech synthesizer
> which has recently been included for Ubuntu "Edgy".
> 
> I have now added a Greek voice.
> 
> I know absolutely no Greek, and I don't know how it's supposed to
> sound.  I made the voice mainly from information from:
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language
> 
> I chose Greek because the spelling is fairly regular, and stressed
> syllables are marked explicitly.  Also because Greek has a different
> alphabet and I wanted to try that.
> 
> I expect it will sound awkward and wrong in many ways, but I hope it
> can be improved with some feedback and assistance from Greek speakers.
> 
> If you know someone who is willing to help, or if you can do so
> yourself, I'll be very interested in your comments.
> 
> eSpeak is small, and adding a new language usually doesn't add much to
> its size.  I hope that it can be a way in which many languages can be
> spoken by Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.
> 
> The Greek voice can speak Greek characters in multibyte UTF8 encoding,
> or (I haven't tested this) as 8-bit ISO 8859-7 characters.  If it finds
> Latin characters, it will speak them as English words.
> 
Sorry, I forgot to give you the URL for the download:
>   http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Some information about adding or improving a language is at:
>    http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html
>