[TAG] Two-cent tip for Linux Gazette

[Jimmy O'Regan]

2008/9/16 Silas S. Brown <ssb22 at cam.ac.uk>:
> Hi Ben,
>
>> I hope you're not taking this wrong
>
> Not at all :)
>
>> I've played around with learning the Japanese syllabary,
>> and found it quite useful for that.
>
> $B$h$m$7$/(B, glad it's useful.
>
> You shuld be able to use Gradint as well if you
> can find someone to record the words and
> phrases for you.  Unfortunately there doesn't
> seem to be a free Japanese speech synthesizer

There is GalateaTalk (http://sourceforge.jp/projects/galateatalk)
which is part of the Galatea project
(http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~galatea/), which also includes a speech
recognition system, and an avatar system. The licence  looks
relatively inoffensive:

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