!!!Sámi Speech Synthesis (Text-to-speech)

Helsinki University, Department of General Linguistics has approached us
with a suggestion for cooperation. They would like to develop a Sámi
synthetic voice.

The persons presenting the suggestions were __Martti Vainio__ and __Antti Suni__.

!!Financing

Ideas for Finland:

*TEKES
*Alfred Kordelin
*M A Castrén

Norway:

*KRD
*NFR
*UiT/Sámi Center

Sweden:

*Kulturdept.

Nordic:

*Nordisk råd

EU:

*InterReg

!!References

A further development of the system was presented at NODALIDA this year
([abstract|http://phon.joensuu.fi/nodalida/abstracts/19.shtml]).

There's a [demo|http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/suopuhe/demo.shtml] of their
Finnish speech synthesiser available.

Cf. also the [Home page|http://www.espoo.com/usix/fst.html] of their project.