Hi, flite sounds good but it would be nice if someone somewhere could put up some small wav files of what espeak sounds like so we can take a listen to it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:16 PM Subject: Re: grml spelling issues > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a modified espeak-generic.conf at > http://tspivey.freeshell.org/espeak-generic.conf. You might want to > modify it again so that it goes through the sox play command, since the > one I have sort of chops - I'm not sure about the latest version of > espeak. I think the blank line deletion still stands - speech dispatcher > sometimes sends just blank lines to espeak, which causes it to pause. > - - Tyler > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:45:10PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: >> * 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/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFF/cg8TsjaYASMWKQRAhxkAJ91wnuw8mwAgOwvKsQwNuyY7iXsPwCfWpmB > pgaKTf15wBZaRgrGpF9auyc= > =JcHS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
