Re: [orca-list] gnome-speech-drivers

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
Freetts can likely be run using some open-source java, but it sounds like 
flite, so i do not think it is a good thing to spend energy on.
As I understand it, Freetts is a java version of flite almost.
Regards, Willem


On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Luke Yelavich wrote:

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> Hi Mattias
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:41:27AM EST, mattias wrote:
> > i have ubuntu
> > way only ubuntu have debs for swift , dectalk, espeak , festival
> > and not for
> > freettsloquendo 
> > etc etc
> 
> Gnome-speech has drivers for several speech synthesizers, some of which are free/open source, and some of which are proprietary. Espeak and festival are two completely free and open source speech synthesizers.  FreeTTS is open source, but as far as I understand it, still requires a java compiler that is not open source, however I need to confirm this on the FreeTTS website. If and when FreeTTS is buildable with a completely open java environment, I will endever to get this speech synthesizer into Ubuntu.
> 
> As for loquendo, there is no package to help set up that synthesizer simply because I don't have a license for that synthesizer, and therefore haven't put any effort into making a package available to more easily set up and use that synthesizer. If anybody can help me with this, I would much appreciate it, as offering a package for loquendo users would be nice.
> 
> There was a package for ibmtts/viavoice, however as of Ubuntu hardy, a needed library for use with ibmtts is no longer available, as the library is rather obsolete. The voxin package makes this library available with their distribution package, as well as packages for use with Ubuntu and gnome-speech.
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> I hope this answers your question.
> 
> Luke
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