Re: [orca-list] alternative synths

[Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com>]

While individuals have their preferred voices, I think there is some consensus among the blind that voxin's voice is the best back-end for speech-dispatcher for users who like to listen at high speed.  You would need to compile sd_ibmtts for your platform.  This is done by first installing voxin, and then downloading the source for your speech-dispatcher package, and compiling it.  If all goes well, you should have a new sd_ibmtts in src/modules/.libs

Bill

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com> wrote:

Hi,
Espeak is fast and sounds good at high rates of speed. Cepstral is slow and sounds good for pleasure reading.
The script installs Nitech and Mbrola.

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Storm

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On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 09:35 +0530, hackingKK wrote:

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 03:22 AM, Storm Dragon wrote:

Hi,
Voxin has no demo. If you used Eloquence, it's the same thing. Also, Cepstral voices are available at cepstral.com. I have also heard that Neospeech has voices for Linux, but I don't know if they would work with Orca or even how to install them. I really wish they would because they sound the best of all the concatination style voices.

How does cepstral sound?
Is it any thing better than espeak?

There's also some free voices that may be worth checking in to like the Nitech and Mbrola voices. There's a script on my site for nstalling them, I have only ever used it in Ubuntu, but it should, in theory, work on all systems. You need to have Festival installed and working to use these voices. The link is:
http://stormdragon.us/voices-script/

And which voices will this script install?

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

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