User talk:Rainmaker44

June 2023
Hello, I'm Tamzin. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Speech synthesis have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 05:11, 21 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Tamzin,
 * Thanks for the message. I am a newbie to Wikipedia and learning (one by one) various rules/guidelines.
 * I did not understand the difference between direct hyperlinks to a website vs. including it as a citation. I see that RHvoice has links to it's website as a citation/reference. I will do the same.
 * My confusion came about because Wikipedia flags MaryTTS and RHvoice in red with the comment "(Page does not exist)". This led me to believe that a direct link to the website is preferred. Looks like the comment/message is meant to convey that a page does not exist on Wikipedia.
 * Also, Wikipedia allows editors to add direct hyperlinks without any warning about guideline violations. Rainmaker44 (talk) 13:09, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Inline external links are allowed on a technical level, but in practice are effectively limited to certain kinds of canonical documents, such as laws, Bible verses, and IETF RFCs. Red links are there to encourage editors to create an article, so replacing them with external links is doubly a problem. If you do want to mention this software in a footnote, that's better, but do make sure to cite some sort of third-party coverage of its significance; otherwise we have no way to tell why a given software is worth mentioning in particular. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 20:33, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Again,
 * Thanks for the additional clarification. My plan is to simply provide link to Hear2Read web site so that interested/curious readers can learn more about opensource speech synthesis (Text to Speech) software specifically designed for Indo Aryan languages and implemented for 12 different such languages. The primary objective of this project is to help Visually Impaired (including the blind) access digital content in their native language. I was trying to keep the description in the article to few words since that's how the other 5 opensource items are listed. I can also add reference to a technical paper presented at the 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop. Does this make sense? Rainmaker44 (talk) 21:12, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

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