Hello! brass - a brltty spinoff - has support for software speech: http://www.butenuth.onlinehome.de/blinux/index-de.html Latest CVS-Version: http://sourceforge.net/projects/brass/ brass supports software and hardware speech synthesis. Software synthesis is a two step process: Phoneme generation by txt2pho (English) or hadifix (German), synthesis by mbrola. Roger On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Gustafsson Kristoffer (elev) wrote: > Hello! > some time ago someone asked about free text to speech for linux. > Personally I recomend to use the mbrola databases. they sound very good and there are many suported languages. > These can be used with festival, but I don't know what screen reader software to use with it. > is emacspeak supported? > I also know that festival lite can convert festvox voices to the flite voice format and use these voices instead of the awful voice, but I don't know how good that works with mbrola. > > I don't even know how to change the voice, but prehaps someone else could help with this. > another option is to ask me for the viavoice binaries I ave on one of my computers, but I don't know if it is possible to get it working abovve redhat 8. > Is there any way to get that working? > or can I buy viavoice? > > kristoffer > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list