I'd like to help out, making it sound a bit more human, anyway. I'm not sure how that's all done, though. It'll take some research, I think. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: tyler at tysdomain.com My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:59 PM Subject: Re: speakup using different synths with software speech? > One of the things that people should remember is all the comercial > speech generation algorythms have patents on them which prevent > redistribution. > this is why someone could not just clone eloquence dectalk or whatever. > > Mbrola has good voice quality, and is far more human sounding than espeak > although it is tricky to set up. > Festival isn't bad but also requires speech dispatcher. > > Licenses of festival and mbrola are not gpl at least they aren't for the > voices anyway. > > I'm sure Jonathan duddington (sorry if I can't spell your name mate) would > accept any constructive help in improving how his speech synthesizer > sounds, > especially to make it more human. > Regards, Kerry. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:21 PM > Subject: RE: speakup using different synths with software speech? > > > Thanks for that information, as much as it doesn't really answer the > question except to say if you want improvement, use another synth. Is that > to mean we won't be seeing any such improvements with Espeak? > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Willem van der Walt > Sent: June 1, 2009 3:38 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: RE: speakup using different synths with software speech? > > There is a way to use mbrola voices with espeak. It is more > human-sounding, > but getting used to espeak standard voice does not take long. > Regards, Willem > > > On Sun, 31 May 2009, James Homuth wrote: > >> Somewhat related, what's the likelyhood of Espeak voices getting >> improvements to be more... I'm not sure what the word for it is, other >> than human-sounding? That's been one of my main sticking points for >> why I'm still with Windows on my primary machine; that, plus I've not >> until now had time to test the accessibility of my particular >> preferred distribution. I did hear a demonstration a while back of a >> version of Espeak, and while I could definitely get used to it, I >> think I'd like it a whole lot better if it didn't sound quite as >> robotic. I'm not saying it should equal eloquence by any means, but >> the demo I heard kind of reminded me of the old Echo synths used on >> the early Apple computers. Good, but could be better, IMHO. Anyway, >> this was more a rambling/curiosity thing and by no means an attempt at >> criticism as I've not actually gotten it running locally yet, so for all >> I > know my version of Espeak could already be improved over the demo I heard. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >> On Behalf Of Hermann >> Sent: May 31, 2009 3:59 PM >> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >> Subject: Re: speakup using different synths with software speech? >> >> am So 31. Mai 2009 um 21:31:02 schrieb William Hubbs > <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com>: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Tyler, >> > >> > I recommend getting used to espeak. The version of eloquence on >> > linux is old, buggy, and they are not planning to upgrade it. >> > >> He can look here: >> http://voxin.oralux.net/index.php#main >> I've bought a rather new version there a few months ago. >> Works pretty well, but to use it with Speakup Speech-Dispatcher is > required. >> Note: Maybe the Emacspeak-server works as well; I remember having seen >> something in the install script. >> Hermann >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > -- > This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, > e-mail > legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. > The full disclaimer details can be found at > http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. 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