Hi, For a small demo of Festival, grab http://jaybird.no-ip.info/festival.wav Hope this helps. Jayson ----- Original Message ----- From: "ace" <ace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 6:24 PM Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available) > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
