Re: Gnopernicus and FreeTTS

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Ken,

> Is the free tts a better speech synth than the Festival?

In many respects, yet.  Some think the voice quality is slightly better. 
There is more active development happening in the FreeTTS project.  But 
perhaps most importantly FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers. 
Gnopernicus uses these in a number of places: to know when text should and 
should not be interrupted, to better concatenate speech, and to sequence 
speech in different voices.

One issue with FreeTTS is that it feels sluggish (something that is being 
worked on).

All that said, if you a blind user depending upon Gnopernicus for hours a 
day, you will be better served with a commercial TTS engine such as DECtalk 
or Cepstral, both of which work with gnome-speech and Gnopernicus.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


> KenOn Fri, 9 Jan 
> 2004, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
>
> > Hi, to get FreeTTS working with gnopernicus here is what you do.
> >
> > 1. Download the freetts tarball from freetts.sourceforge.net.
> > 2. Download the j2sdk 1.4.2 from java.sun.com.
> > 3. Get a copy of the gnome-speech sources.
> > 4. Install the j2sdk rpm.
> > 5. Extract the freetts tarball to ashared location such as
> > /opt/FreeTTS/.
> > 6. Copy the speech.properties file from the freetts directory into your  
> > home directories.
> > 7. Extract the gnome-speech sources.
> > 8. Run configure passing the --prefix option to the pace where your  
> > gnome binaries are, and tell it the freetts directory is so it can link  
> > with freetts.
> > 9. Assuming everything was correctlydone  in steps 1-8 all you need to  
> > do is run make and make install to get gnome-speech installed.
> > 10. Last, from gnopernicus go to preferences, speech, voices, absolute  
> > voices, to change the freetts driver and voice.
> > Hth.
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