Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote: > > I read about this quite a few years ago. Sun released it, but I don't > know if anything is done with it now since Oracle took over. It's > packaged in Debian and requires Java. I've never heard a demo of it, so I > don't know if the quality is any good. Can anyone here comment on it? It's basically a rewrite, in Java, of Festival Lite, hence the output is very similar to that of Flite. Mary TTS uses part of it, evidently - freetts.jar is among the dependencies. For purposes of Speakup, you might as well use Flite; there isn't much point in making FreeTTS work with Speakup.
