Re: [orca-list] Festival

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Hi Alex,
Then I would like to give 22 bit voices a try.
Can you or some one tell me hot to get festival working with speech 
dispatcher and how I can install these 22 bit voices?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 06/05/2012 06:55 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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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