Jan Buchal wrote:
you can try speech dispatcher http://www.freebsoft.org or speech-dispatcher package in Debian. Speech dispatcher provide a several output modules festival for examle. the advantage is that you can use speech dispatcher for different client like orca, speakup for console or speechd-el for emacs and still you have the same API for synthesisers.
Hello, and in the context of the previous message, it is important to note, that Speech Dispatcher communicates with Festival in UTF-8 thanks to the festival-freebsoft-utils extension. So I believe it should work out of the box for you.
Best regards, Tomas.