I just picked the first voice which happened to be Calli and it sounds great to me. In fact, I made some ring tones and my friends now think my phone sounds sexy. On 09/01/13 05:45, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
