Re: [orca-list] Festival

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Thanks a million for this detailed Info.
By any chance can you just resend me the attachment and the link you 
talked about?
My mail box is really cluttered and I got lots of emails to by a bad 
coincidence.
Yet I will attempt to find the link you suggested.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 06/05/2012 11:17 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Hi, Krishnakant,
>
> For instructions, just view the attachment I posted to the list earlier and the link Boris provided and that 
> should get you started.  David was able to do this successfully.  For the voices, all you have to do to 
> install them is to go into synaptic package manager, control find type festival in the search box and scroll 
> through the choices.  Incidentally, you might be interested in some of the Indian voices available.  I do not 
> know which one is your language but I think they have Hindi and Marathi and possibly Gujaratti voices as 
> well.  I don't speak any of those languages so cannot attest to their quality but, thought I'd mention it for 
> you since you reside on the subcontinent on the off chance that one of those is your native language.  I 
> personally enjoy having my computer talk to me in Spanish from time to time as that is my native speech.
>
> Be well,
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krmane gmail com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:19 AM
> To: Alex Midence
> Cc: David Sexton; Orca List
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Festival
>
> 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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