At 12:37 PM 22/04/2004, Doug Sutherland wrote: >Does anyone have any opinions on what is the best sounding software >voice synthesizer available? I'm interested in hearing about it. >Even if they are commerical or expensive. The only ones I have heard >are festival, dectalk, and viavoice. I thought viavoice sounded the >best, but the linux version is obsolete. Are there others? Yes. There is cepstral (http://www.cepstral.com) and they have a version for Linux. It is a really nice voice, and from what I have been able to test with Gnopernicus, it is nice and responsive. However there is a big bug at the moment. The Cepstral software locks up if speech is interrupted. They are currently working on that issue, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. I could easily make a sample of cepstral, however there is no need as one can go to the website and do it themselves. I think you can even do that on the fonix site for DECtalk as well. Luke
