You go Steve. I think there does need to be some work with software synths. I myself think Festival isn't all to bad if Gnopernicus would quit crashing with it. I have the U.S. voices installed and too me that sounds better than Eloquence. Eloquence to me had that little high pitch twang which kind of drove me nuts.On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Steve Holmes wrote: > Well, I for one, love hardware speech for previous reasons mentioned. > The only good thing I can say for software speech is portability. A > laptop would be much easier to use and carry around if you don't have > to lug a synth box around and hook up. Up to the present, you cannot > use software speech to review boot message if your kernel panics or > when doing a brand new install from off-the-shelf distro CD's. It was > mentioned recently that serial ports are going away except for high > end modles and I think that is also criminal if not abominal! I think > the only USB synth out there is the tripple talk and I don't think the > specs are publicly available yet for development of a synth driver for > Speakup. God Damn those non disclosure agreements anyhow! > > -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
