-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Ace, what you may be looking for is the software Dectalk. On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:23:22AM -0700, ace wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6CmLNohoaf1zXJMRAjXWAJ0Zq1Mtl7H2Nb55+23S6d/MOJd2YwCfX8Sz Il+iFqW1kFXyVI8+ebPyQzU= =dLl7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
