-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've actually had the opposite experience with festival and gnopernicus. It started speaking right away for me just fine, but I had to wait forever for it to finish, and couldn't shut it up. The majority of text was spoken just fine, until I got to the last few words (like 2-3 words to the end). Then, it would speak word 1, about 5 second pause, word 2, 5 second pause, and the last word. Adding this problem to the clarity of the speech from festival, made for a distracting screen-reading experience. This was on a 1.1 GHz Celeron. BTW, this was not a gnopernicus problem, it was a festival problem, since it happened even when just typing sentences on the keyboard for festival to speak. Greg On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:01:48PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > I must agree with Greg on this one. It's a little better if you > use the kal16 voice, but it's still nowhere near anything like dec or > eloquence, or even the SSI-263 based synths like the artic or bns. > However, the big issue for me is responsiveness. This, to put it frankly, > festival is not. It shuts up just fine, but it takes at least a second to > begin speaking. This is a 2.13ghz athlon I'm talking about, and it takes a > second to speak a short line. If this line happens to be of a long length > (such as an email message listing) festival takes 3 seconds or more to > start speaking. This, in my mind, is simply unacceptable. I haven't had a > chance to grab 0.5rc1 yet, maybe this responsiveness has been improved. > After responsiveness gets fixed, what we need for festival is a > high-quality voice set. Come to think of it, flite and FreeTTS could use > this as well. At the moment festival's voice has no inflection to speak > of, only has pauses for punctuations, and frankly gives me a headache if I > listen to it for too long. If these issues were fixed I believe festival > would be a viable option. There's no way I'm going to go buy Cepstral, as > the $30 per voice policy doesn't sit well with me, I consider that a > rip-off, I don't care how good the voice sounds. I'll be sticking with > dectalk 5 for now, but if festival had a better voice and better > responsiveness, I'd most definitely use it. And, of course, all flames > will be directed to /dev/null. > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA5cd97s9z/XlyUyARAjA9AJ9TZqP3t9Qmzob8D1ByrlrTThgNiQCgoUWJ yiT8CTiu4K0N5jhQnTjOSFM= =hzXl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
