Re: [orca-list] New eSpeak version soon, please send corrections

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I think the problem of not having female voices in orca when using 
espeak is a gnome-speech problem. I think the problem can be solved by 
using speech-dispatcher instead of gnome-speech (it certainly can be 
solved by creating a suitable generic module for speech-dispatcher but I 
believe it should also be possible with the actual espeak module for 
speech-dispatcher).

As suggested if you do want to use gnome-speech (I have to say 
gnome-speech seems to suit me better at the moment) then you can solve 
the problem by creating a separate voice file.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> On 18 Nov, Krishnakant<hackingkk gmail com>  wrote:
>
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> > Hindi with orca sounds absolutely perfect.
> >      
> I do not believe that :-)
>
> I think eSpeak makes many mistakes about:
> 1.  Which syllable of a word should have the main stress.
> 2.  When the "inherent vowel" "a" should be silent, and when it should
> be spoken.
> 3.  Nasal vowels.
>
> But perhaps the eSpeak Hindi voice is good enough to be useful?
>
>    
> > I just want a few female voices for hindi
> >      
> eSpeak is not good a female voices.
> You can the a female "voice variant" with any language.  If you are
> using the eSpeak command-line then you can use something like:
>
> espeak -v hi+f2 -f text.txt
>
> where -v hi+f2  means "Hindi voice plus the 'f2' voice variant".  I
> don't know if you can specify voice variants through Orca, perhaps not.
>
> If not, then a solution to this problem would be to make a new voice
> file in the directory:  espeak-data/voices
>
> Make a new file called   'hi-f'  which contains the contents of the
> voice file 'hi' and then append to it the contents of a voice variant
> file (such as 'f2') from the sub-directory !v.
>
>    
> > and would like if we can have marathi in espeak as well.
> >      
> I can add Marathi if someone who speaks the language wants to work with
> me and develop the spelling-to-phoneme translation rules.
>
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