Hello, I don't mean this in a negative way, but it seems that you are claiming that c++ is slower than java, and I can't help but find that thought amusing at best. I can completely agree with c being faster due to less overhead and what have you, but java doesn't have a hope in the world of being anywhere near as fast as c++. If I've mistaken your message, then sorry about that, and please explain further. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Saqib Shaikh Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:05 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: linux and accessibility applications Two very different advantages to FreeTTS over Festival: 1. Festival is very slow, and is written in C++ and Scheme, etc. It is made as a research project with the main aim being speech synthesis research. Then you have Flite which is a port of Festival written completely in ANSI C and thus a lot faster. Finally you have FreeTTS which is a rewrite of Flite in Java. They claim that the Java version is as fast, if not faster, than the C version, but I'm not convinced. 2. The completely separate reason why FreeTTS exists is that Sun have made a Speech SDK, so that people can write talking applications - but an SDK is no good without a TTS engine. And no Java TTS engines will exist until people use the Speech SDK - chicken and egg. So Sun thought the easiest thing was to take an open source TTS engine and write a Java version of it. Saqib -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Ryan Mann Sent: 16 March 2004 01:05 To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications What is the advantage of FreeTTS over Festival? FreeTTS is written in Java so I would think it would be more of a memory hogg than Festival. On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, nick G wrote: > I'd like to see FreeTTS in place of festival. Festival is bad, for, > you! Thanks, Nick > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:15 PM > Subject: linux and accessibility applications > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm looking for some feedback, and basically what I want to know is this. > > What accessibility applications are out there for linux besides > > gnopernicus, speakup, emacspeak, brltty and the speechd thing? > > > > The other thing I should ask I think, is, what accessibility > > software would people like to see in a distro? (meaning software > > that's already > > written) > > > > I'm project lead for the gentoo accessibility project > > 'http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/accessibility', and what I'd > > like to do is get a list together of packages we don't have for > > accessibility, and work on getting those available for our users. > > Currently we have most of the gnome-accessibility packages, speakup > > in some of the kernel sources, brltty, (which is currently in testing) festival, and speechd. > > > > Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Deedra > > > > > > - -- > > Gentoo Linux: dmwaters at gentoo.org > > http://www.gentoo.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFAVisVU5AGPOTGNc8RAlzdAJ9HQPE5ymuY3/D00wHg1gq1LaQU0wCfZVSU > > nTtv6T/c2SwQKc7FcAcaSD0= > > =RPM8 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
