On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:10:14PM -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote: > free or not, what is a good synth? I highly encourage you to support Free Software synthesizers. Free Software needs people to care about it, it needs users, and if all users will give up the idea for a temporal technical benefit, libre solutions will never get any better. I think Festival is quite a good Free Software synthesizer. It has several voices, is reasonably fast and even supports some higher level features that the other synthesizers don't (basic SSML, sound icons, scheme-extensibility). > I got software speech going on my linux box, > but I don't care for the responsiveness of flite, any ideas? I must warn you that you don't get good responsivness on typing keys with using Speakup for software synthesis output. There is a conceptual problem in it. I'm working on fixing this. But I think e.g. speechd-el's responsivness is good with Festival and that shows that there is no real problem in software synthesis in general. > Also, how do I make speakup-dispatcher use different synths? where is the configuration files/ thanks Look for DefaultModule and LanguageDefaultModule variables in speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf in your etc/ directory. The corresponding modules must be loaded with the line AddModule somewhere in the file. For problems, examine the logfile in /var/log/speechd.log or /var/log/speech-dispatcher/. With Regards, Hynek Hanke http://www.freebsoft.org/
