I just heard a wav file of Festival's voice. IT sounds OK; it's understandable, but could use some inflection. At 08:34 PM 7/3/04, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The >entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. >- --- >Joseph C. Lininger >jbahm at pcdesk.net >note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact >if quoting me in a reply. >Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 >- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" ><GlennErvin at cableone.net> >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM >Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher >0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > > >>As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer without a >>hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software synth, >>we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any tweaking to >>our system which might effect the audio output. >>Glenn >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke at volny.cz> >>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM >>Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 >>ReleaseCandidate 1 available) >> >> >>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: >>>Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk and >>>eliquence--thanks >> >>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 >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Speakup mailing list >>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD >lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf >=nzhY >-----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
