Re: [orca-list] litle oftopic

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

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I don't know much about festival itself, so may have this wrong, but I
didn't think espeak and festival worked together. I believe both
festival and espeak can use mbrola voices. Also both festival and espeak
have speech-dispatcher drivers, so can be controlled through
speech-dispatcher.

Michael Whapples
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 17:37 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello there Mike and all,
>
> Just wondering how do you get espeak to work with Festival.  I didn't
> know that they ould work together.  if this is orret then I'll try that
> and report my findings.  This may be what I need.  I don't plan to use
> Festival for a long time but for the time being I need to do so.

>     
>
>
> On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 20:35 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 16:08 +0200, mattias wrote:
> > > i try to use ubuntu via vmware on windows
> > > when i use festival with gnome-speech the sound sounds bad
> > > but when i use festival via speech-dispatcher the sound are perfect
> > > hmmm?
> > Speech-dispatcher manages the audio for the synth where as gnome speech
> > uses the synths audio output system. I feel the speech-dispatcher
> > approach is better for the audio output than the gnome-speech one. I do
> > wonder though whether applications should be able to instruct
> > speech-dispatcher to use specific output (like SAPI5 allows windows
> > applications), and should the application not specify an output, then it
> > could fall back to a default in the speech-dispatcher configuration
> > (again like SAPI5 does).
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > >
> >
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