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

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

The instructions and links for getting the mbrola voices going with espeak 
is in a file called mbrola.html.
try locating that on your system or go download espeak's latest version 
at:
http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html
and extract it.  then go into the extracted directory and cd to docs and 
the file is there.
HTH, Willem


On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Alonzo wrote:

> Hello Wollem,
>
> Where doI go about aquiring the packages for mbrola to work with emacspeak.
> I see some binary packages on the web at the mbrola project page, but not
> sure what else to download or where to start.
>
> Alonzo
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willem van der Walt [mailto:wvdwalt csir co za] 
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:47 AM
> To: alonzo
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] recommended text to speech engine other the
> ne-speak
>
> You can install mbrola and try using that with espeak.
> Espeak allows you to use mbrola voices.  It depends on the quality of the
> particular mbrola voice, but it is more human-sounding with the good text to
> phoneme rules of Espeak.
> If you use English, that might be an option for you.  It is possible to use
> that through speech-dispatcher, I do not know about gnome-speech's driver
> for espeak.
> IMHO, Festival is crap.
> The dec software I have never used, but I have a hardware dec, and it was
> the best synth in the eighties, but times have moved on.
> There should be a way of getting Cepstral to work with orca too, but I am
> not particularly impressed with that either.
> Cepstral is commercial.
> The IBM viavoice under whatever name, IMHO, is the best commercial synth
> known to work with orca.
> > From time to time, there is talk on the mailing-lists about loquendo, a good
> commercial synthesizer, but it never gets to the point of someone having
> actually succeeded in buying the software for Linux and giving feedback on
> how well it works.
> HTH, Willem
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, 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
> >
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