----- Original Message ----- > It would be great if somebody who thinks that Festival > is actually worse than eSpeak in quality of speech > could try to elaborate more about the reasons. We might > then try to discover if these reasons are real or if > they are of user preference or if it is even possible > to fix them with a slight fix in the configuration. > I think such an effort would be very useful. To discover > the possible traps as well as to get more light on this > discussion which, I admit, seems always very strange > to me. All help appreciated. > For me it was entirely about response time. Festival was just too slow. Key echo was impossible. Espeak worked really well in that regard.