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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [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
