Espeak does also have an us english voice. On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hi, > > Actually, I like sox very much and I use it a lot for basic editing tasks. I > also generally prefer the command line. My first talking computer was an > Apple II+ with an Echo and a very old version of Textalker, so I can relate to > poor speech quality. However, the computer industry has progressed far beyond > that point, even with hardware speech. There's really no reason to use very > low quality speech synthesizers anymore. Note: I am not saying that ESpeak is > very low quality. It is better than the Echo, but I'm not sure how much > better. Part of the problem is that I am not in the UK and am not used to > British voices. It doesn't mispronounce things too badly and it does have a > fairly low resource overhead. With that said, I still don't see any reason > why I should give up my expensive hardware synthesizers and why I should be > forced into using non-free software speech. > > Regarding audio editing, I'm not familiar with soundgrab. I'll look at it. I > do like sox, but it isn't good for very precise editing tasks. The command > line is great, but when you're dealing with a very small amount of audio, such > as 0.5 seconds, the command line just doesn't cut it. I recently put together > a presentation with music and clips from different audio files. Sox did a > great job, but there was a noticable lag between files. I had to create a > script with the commands to play each clip and it was obvious to me when one > ended and the next started. With something like Sound Forge, it would've been > one smooth presentation with no gaps and no lag between clips. I admit that > I'm not a sox wizard and there are probably workarounds that I don't know > about, but it took me much longer to get the command parameters exactly right > since I couldn't easily cut and paste what I wanted. It worked out well > enough in the end though. > > Georgina Joyce wrote: > > Well here my LTLK works well on this debian lenny system with speakup. > > I've no interest in using it with orca because I quite like espeak. > > Because my first experience with a talking computere was with HAL and > > the Apollo 1 synth and espeak is considerably better than that to my > > ears. However, I wanted to point out that quite a bit can be done via > > the console in respect of audio editing. Perhaps soundgrab and sox > > doesn't attract you but they're a very powerful combination. But I > > accept that I'm happier on the commandline where as others are better > > with a GUI. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
