Since I am not yet using Linux, I have not had a chance to hear what the various speech synthesizers for Linux sound like. IF someone could send me a small wav/MP3 (or tell me where I could acquire sound samples of these synthesizers) I'd appreciate it. I wish to use software speech as opposed to my DEC Express when I finally get Linux on here. At 10:58 AM 7/2/04, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Well, frankly, festival sounds like garbage, worst then the Braille 'n >Speak or accent in my opinion. When I was using it with gnopernicus, I >found myself spending more time on understanding what festival was >saying, then I did on actually using gnopernicus and using gnome. Yes, >I know, festival is GPL software, and we should be happy that we have >a GPL software synth at all, but Hynek did ask for comments, so I'm >posting my own in an attempt to answer his question of what is wrong >with festival in my opinion, and not in an attempt to start a flame >war (smile). > >Greg > >On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:51:01PM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote: > > What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do >better > > so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the >other > > hardware synthesizers. > > > > Of course, this is also a question for others. > > > > Regards, > > Hynek > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > >- -- >Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFA5aJB7s9z/XlyUyARAsrpAJ9BUKbQRfp7+jR1Cs+wnafT416+pQCgqJul >Gs3CPrEzzIp9jr1vpwzoxmg= >=uWFA >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Robby ace at tundra-com.net Network Administrator - irc.talkingirc.com http://www.talkingirc.com
