Jacob wrote: > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > and 9.0. Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that comes with slack. > What are the errors you're getting Yesterday the compile stopped on an "internal gcc error". Scary. I've never seen that error before. I will start another compile right now and see if it does the same thing. Maybe I should try it on another machine too, this one is a 200Mhz embedded board. > maybe I can help you ... Did you just do ./configure and make? I wonder about this too... > does anyone know what the best voice to use with festival is? > I've tried Kal-16k (which is what flite uses) and don't really > care for it much. This is why I'm still interested in ViaVoice TTS for my own personal use, the voices sound much better to me. If it's not that difficult I may try adapting the speakup mods to work with ViaVoice. It's really a shame that ViaVoice can't be distributed though. > I've tried to link it up with the mbrola voices, but doing so > produces quite a lag in responsiveness. A pity, as these > voices are quite pleasant to listen to. Ah, I've thought about that, so it works but is slow ... Is it not usable for that reason? > I guess I'll have to try the british voices. As one of my brit friends always used to say: brilliant! > As for ViaVoice TTS, don't get your hopes up since ibm > discontinued it. Worse, the copyright prohibits redistribution > of ViaVoice, even though IBM's basically abandoned it. I know all of this but I have it, it works, and it sounds very nice. It's also pretty small. -- Doug
