-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yeah I noticed those voice files took a long time to compile...but I'll try creating the swapfile and see what I get. On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 10:32:36AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > How much swap space do you have? Flite requires a *huge* amount of memory > to build successfully. If you have some free hard drive space, I'd set up > a large temporary swap file. Seriously, I'd suggest at least 1GB of swap. > The reason it requires such a tremendous amount of memory to build is that > the voice is entirely in C, and is like 20MB of source code. I don't > recall the exact numbers, but I was surprised that something which > requires such a huge amount of memory to build can run in a fairly small > amount once built. Another option is a pre-built binary. Somebody once > put together a binary package for Slackware of Flite that used the 16-bit > voice which improves fidelity somewhat. I can't remember who it was, > though. Maybe, it's still in the list archive somewhere. > > Flite is an OK synthesizer, but somewhat flat and lifeless sounding. It > also has some strange pronunciation rules. For example, it consistently > pronounces Linux as if the x at the end weren't there. It also tries to > process abbreviations which all the modern synthesizers seem to do. It > drives me nuts when they decide to treat part of an email address as an > abbreviation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun... -- Linus Torvalds at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJ3RE9XVrM3ri110RAhF5AJ9G26LAz3pz4Unr5Ds9/U/nzwOo/QCggu72 vuTjCDhLQKG8z20zXZlVctk= =SrLD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
