Festival is under a BSD-style license. Garrett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:58 PM Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5Release Candidate 1 available) > -----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 >
