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Disclaimer
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THIS  SOFTWARE CARRIES NO   WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  THE  USER
ASSUMES ALL   RISKS, KNOWN  OR   UNKNOWN,  DIRECT OR  INDIRECT,  WHICH 
INVOLVE  THIS SOFTWARE  IN ANY  WAY. IN   PARTICULAR, THE AUTHOR  DOES
NOT TAKE ANY  COMMITMENT IN VIEW OF ANY  POSSIBLE THIRD  PARTY RIGHTS. 

text2phone:
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This program is a simple text2phone translator using local
pronounciation rules. It may be connected to the MBROLA speech synthesizer.

Mbrola speech synthesizer as well as new release of this program can
be dowloaded on the MBROLA Project site http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis

This program also includes a simple prosody generator. It needs PERL 5
installed on your machine.

- edit the text2phone file, to configure the mbrola
  command ($mbrola_cmd) and the MBROLA database
  ($olabase) and text2phone database ($text2phonebase).
  
- type text2phone -h to get an help.

- as an example, type:
  text2phone test
  text2phone test2
  text2phone test_num
  
- to verify the text2phone database, type verif.

The program is commented in french. Sorry. But if you're
interested in a simple french text2phone, I assume that you
understand french. Don't you ? ;-)

David HAUBENSACK.

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