[orca-list] Alternative Synths

["Mitchell Smith" <mjs onthenet com au>]

Greetings,

I thought I would email the list to ask for some feedback on alternative 
synths.

I am using Ubuntu which comes with Espeak by default, and I purchased a 
Cepstral voice because although I find Espeak to be quite responsive, it's 
maximum speech rate is still quite slow for my preference.

While the Cepstral voice is very easy to understand, even at quite high 
speeds, it is a bit unresponsive, even on a Macbook with a 2GHZ processor.

Eloquence would be my preference here, but I don't believe it can be 
purchased in a single user license like the Cepstral synths can.

Can anyone suggest any other alternative synths, either open source or 
commercial, which are reasonably responsive?

Any feedback greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Mitch