Primezero Pinyin Inventory Project Pinyin Tone Bank Now Available
November 23, 2007 – 7:23 am
The Corgilabs (Primezero Labs) Pinyin Inventory was a project designed to record native speakers voices to teach non-native speakers pronunciation.
The idea is that you can hear native speakers saying the words in a dictionary or in a newspaper, just as in the typical text-to-speech (TTS). The difference between this and other TTS setups is that you can have over 1000 different voices in a dictionary for a partial or complete set of sounds.
I was very lucky to find the lovely Leylop through T-Salon.
…Very, very lucky because from Leylop I received my first complete set of sounds.
Since then, I have had an awesome tone bank for testing text-to-speech and speech recognition applications. For this, I am truly grateful.
I have just uploaded the Pinyin Tone Bank now available on the PZPHP Google Code site in Downloads.
If you are dabbling with the PZPinyinReader class for pinyin processing, you can use PZPinyinReader->pzpinyin_hearpinyin( ) to hear pinyin using the tone bank.
Have fun! 
One Response to “Primezero Pinyin Inventory Project Pinyin Tone Bank Now Available”
Primezero Pinyin Inventory is freely available to any developers of text-to-speech applications for Mandarin Chinese. Please let me know how you use it. Have fun!
By admin on Dec 26, 2007