A program and a library that can be used as a simple
basic interface to some SoX functionality or for producing
the approximately Ukrainian speech with your own recorded
voice.
The program starts with Caution to be responsible for usage
and to use it personally. Then the program guides you
through the creating and using your Ukrainian "voice".
Please, use it carefully. After the execution you can
execute mmsyn7h program to produce some records with your
newly created "voice". During the execution of the last one
you can choose whether to remove (clean)
all the created sound files in the current directory for
security reasons. If the programs terminate by interruption or in
general it is a good practice to remove the current
directory sound files manually.
***** CAUTION! *****
"The possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility."
(William Lamb)
The program mmsyn7ukr produces the close to proper Ukrainian
speech (if you correctly pronounce the sounds) with your own
recorded voice. It approximates your voice with a sequence
of recorded separate sounds with your control over the
duration of the sounds. They are then precessed by the SoX
binaries already installed in the system to produce the
needed sounds and then you can pronounce some Ukrainian text
with your recorded "voice" using mmsyn7h program. Nevertheless,
you can substitute whatever sounds you like (consider being
sensible) instead of your own voice.
Be aware that if somebody can get access to the sounds of
your voice or to the recorded speech (except you) then this
possibility itself creates security issues and concerns. So,
please, do NOT give access to such records to anybody else
except you.
In such a case, the program is for personal usage of every
user ONLY!
Being given as an advice in such a case, run the program
in the empty directory with the current user permissions to write,
read and search and provide some proofs and evidence that nobody else
can even read the files in the directory. May be, it is better
to execute the program being in the directory located in the RAM,
then consequently wait until the program ends and then reboot
the computer.
If the program ends earlier, you must then remove
(better wipe) the directory contents. No other users should
have access to the computer after you have begun to run the
program and have not deleted (or better wiped) the contents
of the directory. Please, be aware, that there are possibilities
to read sensitive information from the drives after you have
deleted the files in a usual way. You can use wiping for better
security. Besides, if somebody can get access to the memory of
the computer or to the directory contents where you run the
program or (may be) to the temporary files created by SoX or
to the drive where you run the program (not in the RAM, or may
be in it) then your voice can be stolen and / or used
inappropriately. Use all possible precautions and measures to
avoid the situation.
Be aware also that the given by the program technology (or
documentation for it in any form) of the voice processing can
be improved so there is NO guarantees that the given technology
or its successors cannot be used in violating your voice identity
to produce from some available voice records the voice for the
inappropriate usage. Therefore, better is to proove your identity not
only with the solely voice itself but with some additional
independent sources and measures.
The author of the program accordingly to the LICENSE (MIT) does not
response for any possible issues, but by this notification tries to
intent you to be aware of some possible issues.