Re: [orca-list] What synth are people using?

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

Thanks all for the replies.  Everyone who expressed a preference so far has 
preferred espeak, so I'm going to request that gnome-speech be built with it by 
default with the festival driver maybe becoming an optional package.

-Mike G-

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Mike Gorse wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> OpenSUSE currently provides festival and espeak, but gnome-speech is not 
> built with espeak support, and festival is used by default.  It seems to me 
> that espeak is more widely-used than festival these days, so we should 
> probably make it the default for 11.1, but I wanted to take an informal poll 
> to see which synth people prefer.  So, if people could email me and let me 
> know which synth you're using or if you have any input either way, then I'd 
> really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike G-