* Hynek Hanke <hanke at brailcom.org> wrote: > Michael Prokop p??e v Ne 18. 03. 2007 v 15:59 +0100: >> "I however find Espeak does not sound quite as clear to me. I like >> the current synthesizer that is being used." >> What benefit would espeak bring compared to eflite? > Compared to eFlite, eSpeak is a multi-lingual synthesizer. > Although the quality of languages is very variable, it is possible to > use it for MANY languages in a way that it is understandable (useful). > The span is even wider than documented, because for example for Czech it > is possible to use it with the Polish voice and understand it. I believe > this is the case for other close languages too. And I'm amazed on how > fast voices for new languages are being added, although of only basic > quality. eFlite is nowhere near this... Ok, thanks. >> Disclaimer: I can't promise anything regarding adding espeak. We are >> running out of space so the ISO fits within 700MB on grml always... > If necessary for disk space reasons, I highly recommend dropping Flite > in favor of eSpeak. Ok. When I'm removing libflite1, besides flite and eflite also brltty-flite and speech-dispatcher will disappear. This would bring me >15MB of disk space whereas espeak needs only 1200kB at total, so definitely appreciated from my side. But I've to take a look at espeak and its configuration first of all. Any help and feedback regarding espeak's configuration on grml is highly welcome. -mika- -- ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ ( grml.org -? Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins `._,' http://www.grml.org/
