Re: [orca-list] recommended text to speech engine other the ne-speak

[alonzo <mariachiac aim com>]

Hello Michael,

I've jsut looked up voxin. It seems to be promising, but does not work
with speech dispatcher for ubuntu hardy unless it's proviced in the
reposityry. It's also only made for 386 modes not x86-64. So i am
wondering if it will work on my system.
Alonzo

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:33 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> Here are some suggestions for you. You should also note that you may
> hear of voxin, this provides IBMtts (viavoice) which is the same as
> ttsynth gives you, along with some extra packages to intergrate it with
> applications (eg. the gnome-speech driver, speech-dispatcher driver,
> etc).
>
> Dectalk software synthesiser from phonix (non-free)
> Cepstral swift (non-free)
> Freetts (free as the name suggests, based of flite, written in java)
> flite (free, based on festival, flite is meant to be a lighter weight
> version of festival but I still say heavy on system resource)
> festival (free, quite heavy on system resources, has more voices than
> flite, many don't like its sound)
> mbrolla (not really tts as it only produces the output from phonemes)
> Cicero (free, they say french and something which ressembles english,
> uses mbrola to produce the audio output from the phonemes)
> epos (free, claims to be language independent (configuration file
> defines language stuff rather than the code), czech and slovak voices
> provided)
>
> I have only tried freetts, flite and festival on Linux, I have heard
> dectalk on windows and didn't like the sound, the rest I can't really
> comment too much on.
>
> Hope this is of use. Sorry for no URL's google will help as usual.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 02:18 -0500, alonzo wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am looking for an alternative engine other then e-speak. It does not
> > have to  be free. I'm still waiting on my reply from capital
> > accessibility concerning my purchase and the file i've lost. I've not
> > recieved a word though. So if anyone has some experiences using other
> > speech engines with Orca, please share them with me. I've decided to
> > stick with Ubuntu for now.
> >
> > Alonzo