Re: Loquendo (was Re: Using espeak)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

My only dealings with Loquendo have been done indirectly via the folks
that have written the gnome-speech driver for Loquendo (Juan Ramon
Jimenez from ONCE, to be exact).  I'll pass some questions on to ONCE,
however, to see if they can help us get a response from Loquendo.

The only Loquendo voices I have right now are for a limited license for
Spanish.  All it's saying to me at the moment is "Attention [something
something something and something else in Spanish, and it's not abierto,
cerrado, or por favore or anything else I learned from Sesame Street]".
I'm guessing it's saying "Ask me to speak as much as you want, but all
I'm going to say to you is that you need a license."

I've just committed the gnome-speech speech driver into GNOME CVS HEAD,
BTW.  I tested it only minimally, BTW, and we will do more thorough
testing once I get the licensing on my machine taken care of.  

Will

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 16:39 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> I would also like to know if there is a Linux version and about pricing if 
> anyone has an idea, please let us know.
> TIA, Willem
> 
> 
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 
> > Hi Will, all.
> > 
> > > happily roll it in to gnome-speech (there's also a driver for Loquendo
> > > that we still need to roll in).  
> > 
> > Does anyone happen to know where things stand with Loquendo?  I would
> > happily pay for that level of quality in a synthesizer, but looking at
> > their site that doesn't (yet) seem to be an option.  I've emailed them,
> > but have not heard back.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Joanie
> > 
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