I'm not too worried about it because I expect to do a complete reformat and reinstall of the second Severn beta next week. Sina Bahram writes: > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> > > Thanks Janina, I'll go take a look at them. Have you had any luck with > them, and which ones would you personally recommend? > > Thanks again, > Sina > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Janina Sajka > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:06 AM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: 16k voices > > > Right on, Jacob. > > But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's > less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices > available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side > of Festival and Flite, by the way. > > > Jacob Schmude writes: > > From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude at adelphia.net> > > > > Hi > > Honestly, I'd recommend a hardware solution at this point. There are > > 16k voices out there for festival, flite and freetts. However, that > doesn't necessarily > > have anything at all to do with the quality of the voice. Festival, > flite, and freetts (software synthesizers) all use the same basic > voices. These voices are, in > > my opinion, terrible. Oh, they're clear due to there being 16K, but > their inflection is almost nonexistant and, due to the pronunciation > they use, they tend to be > > difficult to understand. You can get the software synths and voices > at: > > festival: http://www.festvox.org/ > > flite (festival lite): http://cmuflite.org > > freetts (java-based speech engine) http://freetts.sf.net/ > > As of right now, festival is the only software synthesizer supposedly > supported by speakup 1.5. I say supposedly because I've never gotten it > working > > satisfactorily. You need to apply a patch and run an add-on daemon, > but it's incredibly slow to respond, doesn't allow changing of voice > parameters like rate > > and pitch, and hasn't been updated or changed since april according to > the filename. You can get the patch at: > > http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux > > if you want to try it. > > IMHO, the only good linux software synth is software dectalk, but that > costs $50 and speakup doesn't work with it yet. Hint, hint, speakup > developers? Any > > chance it'll ever be supported? > > If you need help getting the software synthesizer working, let me > know. It can be a bit of work, especially if you're going to try > festival. Software Speech is > > one of the two major areas in which linux lags behind, I think, the > other being OCR. > > HTH > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:47 -0400, Sina Bahram wrote: > > > > >Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some > > >16k voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be > > >availible, and if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible > > >these days. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
