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).

There's a demoof their Finnish speech synthesiser available.

Cf. also the Home pageof their project.