I have heard of FreeTTS. It's written in java I think, but not 100% sute about that. I know it can use Mbrola voices and probably in that case can use Festival voices as well. I do have Festival running on my laptop, which is running Slackware 9.0. In a day or so, if you want, I can build it again and see if I can use the checkinstall package to create a precompiled Slackware package for Festival. Hopefully, this will take a lot of the confusion out of building it. Lorenzo Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. -- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing Adam Myrow staggered into view and mumbled: > Hi. I know others have fiddled with the CVS snapshots of Gnopernicus. > The Gnome-speech documentation states that it currently supports Festival, > IBM Viavoice, and FreeTTS. I've never heard of FreeTTS. Has anybody > tried it? Does it sound halfway decent? Is it easier to build than > Festival? I'd like to play with Gnopernicus to see what state it is in, > but the last time I attempted to build Festival, I got so confused that I > gave up. I'm not too keen on Viavoice since it's pretty much abandoned. > If nobody has heard of FreeTTS, has anybody built Festival on Slackware 9 > and actually used it? Thanks for any info. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
