Re: [orca-list] Festival

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi,

Just to add to this I find the English U.K. voices are superior to the
U.S. voices. When I use to use Festival on my system before switching
to ESpeak I use to really enjoy the U.K. voices because they were
pretty decent sounding.

Cheers!


On 6/5/12, Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:
> If you ever heard a Braille 'n Speak from the 1990's, Festival's default
> English voice kinda sounds like that, but with slightly better
> inflection. Other languages may work better, but I'm not sure. If you
> have eSpeak working, I would recommend sticking with it. Festival can
> run other voices, but I'm not sure that they are supported by
> speech-dispatcher, and the last time I tried to get an alternate
> Festival voice speaking, which granted was several years ago,
> speech-dispatcher was by far the easiest way to try to configure it, as
> Festival's configuration files are not as easy to read as other speech
> synthesizers. Having said this, if you can get Festival talking and can
> figure out how it works, it is quite extensible, and it is even possible
> to create new voice data for it in any language you speak. The default
> voices are probably not as good as eSpeak, but because of its
> extensibility, it has great potential.
>
> On a related note, I thought it used to be possible to get FreeTTS,
> which if I remember correctly, is a Java reimplementation of Festival,
> working in speech-dispatcher. Is this still possible/does FreeTTS even
> work now? Or is it rather pointless to try to make it work if one
> already has Festival talking?
> ~Kyle
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