Re: [orca-list] Festival

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Congratulations!   You got farther than I got.  I got speech working
all right but I never did get sound icons to work and mine worked
through gnome-speech and not speech dispatcher.  Try as I might, I was
never quite able to get speech dispatcher to see Festival so that Orca
presented it as an option in the available speech synthesizers.  I
certainly never made it as far as sound icons.  Glad it's working well
for you and you seem to like it.

Krishnakant:  Festival's voice texture and quality depends on which
voice you have installed.  The 8kbps voices are kind of robotic with a
humanesque character to them, the 16kbps are noticeably more human
sounding and, lastly the 22kbps are high quality human-sounding voices
that can go toe to toe with some of the commercial ones I've used.  If
you use the mbrola voices, their quality is quite nice and
human-sounding as well.

Alex M

On 6/5/12, David Sexton <david explorechange net> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I got festival working in vinux 3.2 with speech-dispatcher and pulse
> audio, even the sound icons are working...
>
> only thing I had to do was follow previous instructions plus install
> speech-dispatcher-festival and get rid of the lines in /etc/festival.scm
> about czech
> it's surprisingly responsive!
>
>
> On 04/06/12 18:53, Alex Midence wrote:
> > Hello, Boris,
> >
> > I prepared instructions for people who wanted to try Festival out a
> > couple of years ago.  They are very strongly geared towards users of
> > Vinux but, I think they can be adapted to a wider audience.  I just
> > lack the time and motivation to do so at present.  I'm attaching a
> > copy of this file written in html in case you would care to use some
> > of its content to flesh out the guide you all have written which does
> > a nice job of addressing the more technical points.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Alex M
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/4/12, Boris DuÅek<dusek brailcom org>  wrote:
> > > 4. 6. 2012 v 12:24, David Sexton:
> > >
> > > > Great to get instructions...
> > > > however the files listed in the instructions give 404 not found errors
> > > the files are now online, I apologize for the errors
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