Some Cepstral voices are disappointing. If you want to explore their demos, be sure to consider the voices David and William. Both are excellent. I have yet to find a satisfactory female voice among their many downloads. On Sun, 1 Sep 2013, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > I agree about the Cepstral voices, except they will only give you wav > output from a textg file. From there it would be: lame to go to mp3, oggenc > to go to ogg, and sox to go to gsm, etc. Nice opportunity for a bit of > bash scripting. > > > On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, John G. Heim wrote: > > > The Cepstral voices are excellent. If responsiveness is not important, they > > are great. It depends on what you consider a reasonable cost. > > > > > > On 08/31/13 19:43, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote: > > > I'm looking for Linux software for good sounding text to speech, either free > > > or at a reasonable cost. I am not looking for a synthesizer but rather > > > software to turn text files into sound files in wav, mp3, gsm, etc. > > > Currently, I'm using the old IBM ViaVoice. Any recommendations? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > -- Chuck, now in Ghent: (Not far from Hudson on the Hudson)
