can I hear a sample of this synth? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 2:41 PM Subject: A small software synthesiser, espeak >I came across this, and it might be interesting for those of you trying to >find a small, high quality, open source software speech synthesiser. > Espeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net), it is definitely smaller than some > of the alternatives at 350kb for the installation. The quality is > understandable (it supposedly uses a different algorithm to some other > open source ones so sounds different), but not to the same level as some > commercial ones. Also it has some other language support, but that is in > early stages supposedly. > I have managed to get it working on my laptop with speech-dispatcher with > a modified generic.conf file, and getting fairly good response from it. So > if any one would like to see that file, I can give you that. Installation > instructions are in the commands.html file. Also to get it working with > gentoo, it required some things not documented, it requires > libportaudio.so.0 but portaudio only has libportaudio.so, just create a > link. I was unable to compile it, but the linux binary works with that > link. > > From > Michael Whapples > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 1.1479 (20060409) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >
