On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0800, Stephen Pollei wrote: > > FreeTTS and Sphinx4 are both Java, so they're out. > Yes but I thought FC4 might have Java built-in . > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg00352.html has Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim redhat com> say that ecj, gij, and Java-Gnome binding are planned to be included. It'll be interesting to see how well that works. > Yes flite might be what you want. I haven't evaluated any of them > myself. I do seem to recall that for making new voices that freetts > needed some other software or something. It's been a few months since I Sadly, from the docs: As of 1.2 initial scripts have been added to aid the conversion of FestVox voices to Flite. In general the conversion cannot be automatic. For example all specific Scheme code written for a voice needs to be hand converted to C to work in Flite, this can be a major task. I ain't got time for a major task like that. Wish I did, though! -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>