Re: [orca-list] updating espeak

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

The sonic libraries work for all languages.  I found English to work best.
Spanish works OK but I don't like the pronunciation and it messes with the
clarity.  Brazilian Portuguese seems to do better than Spanish.  


HTH,
Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Fernando Botelho [mailto:fernando botelho f123 org] 
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:36 AM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: 'Josh Kennedy'; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] updating espeak

Alex, does the higher speeds in espeak apply for all languages or just
English?

Thanks,

Fernando


On 05/02/2013 12:30 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> It shouldn't.  I've done this before once or twice.  I stopped because 
> I couldn't notice any real difference in my day to day usage that 
> justified the headache.  You have to download the source code, compile 
> it either againste Pulse or Alsa depending on your distribution which 
> means modifying the makefile, and then hope and pray that you don't 
> lose speech or that stuff that used to work doesn't suddenly stop 
> working so well.  Only reason I did it before was to compile Espeak 
> against Pulse and include the Sonic libraries by Bill Cox which let 
> you increase your speech output to insanely fast rates like 6 and 7 
> hundred wpm and still retain clarity.  This was supposed to make my 
> Emacspeak experience better.  It was OK but I stopped messing with it once
I ran a distro without Pulse to make a hash of things.
> Also, I only did it after having successfully installed and gotten 
> Festival to run as a backup so Orca would have something to speak 
> with.  My recommendation would be to not mess with it as you can 
> really screw yourself over if something goes wrong.
>
> My two cents,
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Josh 
> Kennedy
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:16 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] updating espeak
>
> Hi, will it break orca or my linux distro if I download the latest 
> espeak and install it? I like having the latest version.
>
>
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