Linux speech w/o special hardware

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I am sorry, it is for flite and not for Festival.

Prasad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware


>
> Perhaps you're thinking of flite alias festival lite? It's not the same
> thing.
>
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote:
>
> > What I saw was someone who installed the Festival binaries on Linux and
was
> > tinkering aound with it. Not Festival with Emacspeak.
> >     There is a Speech server for Festival to work wth emacspeak. This is
the
> > missing piece you are talking about. You need to get this  and then you
can
> > use Festival as the speech engine with emacspeak. Yes, there was a
message
> > reg. this , I think by the author of that speech server. Check out the
> > archives.
> >
> > Prasad
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu>
> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware
> >
> >
> > > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have
you
> > > seen Festival or Viavoice work?
> > >
> > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups
for
> > > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find
> > > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate
there's a
> > > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between
> > > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I
found
> > > was so vague I couldn't really tell.
> > >
> > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that
> > they
> > > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival.
> > >
> > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm
going to
> > > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external
synth
> > > would defeat the purpose.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote:
> > > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it
work. It
> > is
> > > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux.
> > > >
> > > >Prasad
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu>
> > > >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> > > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM
> > > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded
it
> > last
> > > > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if
it
> > > >might
> > > > > have been withdrawn.
> > > > >
> > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's
Trace
> > > > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the
> > University
> > > > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on
> > > >standard
> > > > > hardware, a PC with a sound card.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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