Welcome to the home page of Burcas
What is...?
Burcas is a modest attempt at a concatenated MIDI-to-singing voice synthesis system for Swedish. It is basically a (text-based and rather primitive) musical front-end to the MBROLA speech generator, accepting a text file (in Swedish) and a midi file for time and pitch decisions, and outputting control parameters (phoneme, duration, frequency) in appropriate .pho format for the MBROLA speech generator. See more under Q & A.
Final note (Feb 2003)
Burcas is currently not an active project. I now have other tasks; in the foreseeable future I will have little or no time to develop the project further, nor to maintain this web page. This may or may not change in the future.
Burcas works tolerably, if you are its author. Otherwise, it is rather difficult to handle, due to the low priority given to documentation, user interface, and error handling. In its current (end-)state, it is too language-specific, user-unfriendly, and generally alphaish to be useful.
Samples are left mostly for amusement.