I just downloaded the Mbrola voices. Is there a way to possibly link Flite to these voices? Or is there a working Emacspeak server for Festival? Also, if anyone has used the Mbrola voices, can you give me some pointers on what I need to do to get them working with Festival? Thanks Lorenzo There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and those who can't. There is a constant pitched battle between the two. -- From one of the post-1.1.54 kernel update messages posted to c.o.l.a Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled: > Hi > Unfortunately what you get in that file is what's called a limited domain > voice. This means it only knows how to say certain things, such as numbers > for the time. The generic voices sound exactly like flite, unless you link > it to the mbrola voices. That will give you better quality but it will be > much less responsive. Based on what I've experimented with I'd say freetts > and festival are on par with responsiveness, flite being much faster. And > since FreeTTS's generic voices are identical to flite's, I wind up just > using flite when I need software speech. > > > At 19:07 4/28/2003 -0700, you wrote: > > >At 08:39 PM 4/28/2003 -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > >>Does it sound halfway decent? > > > >http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/audio/12-35.wav sounds good enough to me. >
