Hi There: There's always the Cepstral option. The voice are not free, but virutally. They're about 35 bucks each, they sound good and support linux. You can try out demos and downloads at: http://cepstral.com/cgi-bin/downloads Martin > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:23:26 -0500 > From: Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > ReplyTo: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: software synthesizers with yasr > > I agree with you Mario. As for your conclusion, I've been trying on the > either part, as I'm not capable of the or part. > > Mario Lang writes: > > Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > He was asking about free software tts. DEC Talk isn't free. The only > > > other free that I am aware of is Free TTS: > > > > > > http://freetts.sf.net > > > > Oh yeah, free as in "Free for you if you control the Java license". > > > And nowadays, they even managed to port Sphinx over to Java. > > > I really really hate Sun for these obvious strategic moves. > If Java > were truly free, no one would object. > > But thats how market share aquisation goes it seems. > > > > Look at what we got: FreeTTS, Sphinx and for OpenOffice, we need the > Java > Access Bridge. That is 3 major accessibility related components > > which are based on top of Java, and therefore prevent > > distributors who truly care for Free Software from > > integrating these components. I've tried several times to compile > > these three things on top of a truly free java implementation, but > it > seems they're doing their best to prevent this from working > by using > the latest and "greatest" Java SDK tech in their code. > > > All in all, Sun is obviously trying to make Java a required > > component of your computer system when it comes to Accessibility. > I > guess thats what one gets out of a deal by investing > > efforts into it, but it is amazing how no one seems to realize > this, > or seems to do anything about it. > > > > Either Sun changes its license for Java such that it is > > more easily redistributable, or we'll have to ensure that > > the Java components in the Accessibility area do run > > on Free Java Alternatives. Something has to be done. > > > > -- > > CYa, > > Mario > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Screen-reader friendly Software suggestions: Under 600K === Email === JbMail: http://jbmail.pc-tools.net/ Geminisoft Pimmy: http://www.geminisoft.com/en/ === Messeging === Miranda www.miranda-im.org/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list