As far as a free software synth festival is the best there is right now. If you want a synth that sounds better there is the Dectalk software from Fonix which costs about $50, but one problem is that is very slow while editing text documents in gedit where festival is very prompt for me. As for festival sounding like a chipmunk I can tell you that is not normal behavior. There can be one of two problems here. 1. Configuring the speech rate, pitch etc.. If you haven't already done so switch to layer 8 and configure your speech to how you want it to sound. 2. Some sound cards under Fedora don't get properly configured causing sound cards to make speech sound very strange. I tried Fedora a while back and my dectalk software sounded like a chipmunk no matter what I did to set the pitch and rate, but when I removed Fedora and put Mandrake 9.2 on the problem totally vanished. So there seams to be something up with Fedora and soundcards. In fact, every software speech system I tried had the same problems under Fedora, and the all work fine on the same computer with Mandrake. Any conclusions? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Hernandez" <juan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup" <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:45 AM Subject: speech ingens 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
