Ah well, figured it was worth asking about. Just some thoughts: A lot of these voices, e.g. pico and flite, sound quite good, aside from their pitch shifting. IBM's synth has a much "rougher" sound to me, but the roughness is tempered with the constant but small pitch shifts. I would find it educational to get a list of attributes that make IBMTTS better than some of the alternatives. Maybe see if we could change one of the alternatives to have these attributes. Just my 2C after a sleepless night; take it with a grain of salt. Brandon McGinty-Carroll On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:19:53AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Thank you for mentioning this! That was the point I was trying to make, > but I wasn't sure how to put it. No, I don't see it becoming open source > any time soon. It would be better to either rewrite something already out > there or write something from scratch, such as what was done with ESpeak. > Say what you want about the quality of the voice, but ESpeak still > remains the only truly open source solution in active development which > doesn't crash and is very responsive. The Festival voices seem to be > abandoned if I understand correctly. Mbrola isn't bad, but it is non-free > and is also not further developed. > > With that said, I know very little about Voxin or whatever you want to > call it except that Oralux probably shouldn't legally be packaging it, > which is another reason why I wouldn't buy it. I do know that there is > such a thing as Eloquence for Linux which sounds the same as ViaVoice but > it isn't. I have used it and the old APH Braille+ ships it. When this > was pointed out to me, I didn't believe it, but I tracked down the library > on the system. I'm pretty sure it uses an ARM processor, so that won't > help much. Also, as I mentioned in a previous post, GW Micro ships a > "new" version with Window-Eyes now. I don't know what version it is or > what the differences are, but it's supposed to not crash as often and > maybe (I don't know) it supports 64-bit Windows since there is a 64-bit > Window-Eyes. Therefore, just from my own evidence, I would agree that > it's still making money under whatever name you want to call it. By all > means I hope they're willing to release the source, but don't hold your > breath. > > On 5/11/2013 11:36 AM, Janina Sajka wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRj1CoAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0yz8YP/i/T3C202GOJBkuh+kOoHXEn > p4h1eca6F/H5Z9R4LJeRMwTZ5/Jsf7YKlmuX6tohlKqv8n4ZpWDauZmzOyRqmijF > vhN/Xxdbg/BfOnWXUxdNVLBSREcwQItj8Id/EBztxMvHMZ+drjberrFPzI674sge > m6Hftv/UGzbi7SssyyZMVO27ZqQkX7qh29Et+r4E8AdKWYQeOkKdo4xYRLJGsw7L > ZPqc5kuuXidDC/uZMnw4nwXpC7Qhn6ZzAvJzqJUiE65mrYBJlq4sFazXQ92n0j6J > 81Ws9Zkup4VmfB4FnjefSAU8bWXi4EilKKg2BTwiJjNAKTdXBnh9kTInPC02Ls/W > gL7/j6rMe7PpCeGzwpyU2rNhZ88Oym379u4vXSJKrbHXfpqS+v/x4pxF3kzixEzE > gzIJ1fwhXc00mCT98Q1EZVwLm3JptnzpcFpr+ntuNXq9mwk4Fuv1GZs8L6m6dW6E > 45xCG/VFZciZiKlfaxtvI0SL+ORRxM9c7faWjPSmpt8USr2aI4d9kkWxlEXWpx4Y > oPYSEm6hOjmymcSS319eGTvbVSXRoDr860BSjZtH/1bF9JYbSGege5akDkorvmYb > TMqZju0p2mr9Q0XnwzZw0Q54z3dZedWuK5wWTB1IQPkR5uyuI83HZ4Acnr2JQ4vp > nPkrwHqgg1si8X6PIcDb > =jfCk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
