Re: [orca-list] recommended text to speech engine other the ne-speak

["Alonzo" <mariachiac aim com>]

Hello Wollem,

Where doI go about aquiring the packages for mbrola to work with emacspeak.
I see some binary packages on the web at the mbrola project page, but not
sure what else to download or where to start.

Alonzo
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Willem van der Walt [mailto:wvdwalt csir co za] 
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:47 AM
To: alonzo
Subject: Re: [orca-list] recommended text to speech engine other the
ne-speak

You can install mbrola and try using that with espeak.
Espeak allows you to use mbrola voices.  It depends on the quality of the
particular mbrola voice, but it is more human-sounding with the good text to
phoneme rules of Espeak.
If you use English, that might be an option for you.  It is possible to use
that through speech-dispatcher, I do not know about gnome-speech's driver
for espeak.
IMHO, Festival is crap.
The dec software I have never used, but I have a hardware dec, and it was
the best synth in the eighties, but times have moved on.
There should be a way of getting Cepstral to work with orca too, but I am
not particularly impressed with that either.
Cepstral is commercial.
The IBM viavoice under whatever name, IMHO, is the best commercial synth
known to work with orca.