where can I hear what the fada voices sound like? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Haneman" <Bill.Haneman@xxxxxxx> To: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com> Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:04 AM Subject: Re: software TTS > Darragh: > > I've used gnome-speech drivers for Theta with very good results. So far > this seems to be the best choice for quality, cost, and reliability so > far. However, I don't know what the availability of the Theta voices is > like at the moment, as Cepstral has moved to a new product which they call > 'Swift'. Ask Will Walker about whether the gnome-speech Theta drivers > work with Swift... > > Bill > > Darragh wrote: > >>Hello, I'm looking for good software TTS. I don't mind paying for it at >>this stage as the apollo sounds horrible in my opinion and when using a >>laptop its not always practicle to plug it in. >>I'd like something that I can use on a few applications. At the moment I >>use/try depending on my mood Gnopernicus, Speakup, Yasr, Emacspeak, >>BrlTTY, and in a few weeks the SuSE sbl packages. >> >>So far I've tried Flite, F lite, Festivle and of course the apollo but all >>have sounded terrible or have been very sluggish. I've been told about a >>TTS package from ibm called ttsynth that works with gnopernicus and sbl so >>I'm thinking of buying that but I'd like your input first. Does it work >>with some or all of the above packages and is it responsive in the console >>and in Gnome? >>I've had the IBM viavoice package for years but never got it running. >>Today I almost got there however I had problems trying to find libXm.so.1 >>so I think that's going to be left for another very quiet day. >>Thanks. >> >>Darragh >>_______________________________________________ >>gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >>gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org >>http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.7/112 - Release Date: 9/26/2005 > >
