viavoice was a pretty good engine from what I hear but ibm discontinued the linux version. dectalk is also good but unfortunately it's not free. Freetts also works but I've heard it's really laggy even on fast machines. On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:45:34PM -0800, Juan Hernandez wrote: > Hello, I would like to know what speech engine is the best? I have festival and running on my computer what others are nice? festival sounds like a chipmunk. I wanna use it with gnopernicus. THanks in advanced. also, I am running fedora core 1.0 tnx > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.