Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> FreeTTS (a Java-based engine) is based on logic from Festival and  
> Flite, though it really is mostly a Flite clone in Java.  Like  
> Festival, it consists of core logic that can operate on voice  
> data.  To get a small set, you could ship only what's needed for  
> the kevin voices, but you'd probably also want to keep the MBROLA  
> support because it has similar benefits as what you get with  
> Festival.  I think the total would be about 6.5Meg or so, but then  
> you will also need the Java virtual machine.

I should add "a Java virtual machine that works with Java Sound."  In  
my experiences, the gcj stuff is not adequate for this.

Will