Re: [orca-list] cepstral

["mattias" <mj mjw se>]

how about fonix or loquendo?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1978 gmail com>
To: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] cepstral


> Hi Josh,
>
> Well, the primary issue with the Cepstral voices are they tend to lag
> a bit. They are no where as responsive ass say Espeak. So if you are
> willing to put up with a little lag then they might be right for you.
>
> Of course,  one problem I have with those voices is the way that
> Speech Dispatcher handles them. With Gnome Speech support would be
> compiled into the drivers which meant Orca was more responsive and
> stable with the Cepstral voices. Speech Dispatcher has a generic
> wrapper that just outputs speech via Swift which means things get a
> little funky when trying to read large portions of text at once or
> type at a high rate of speed etc. So while I do like those voices
> myself I don't think they are necessarily an absolute replacement for
> Espeak. However, they are probably the best you can get for Linux
> right now.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On 5/24/13, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > Do the cepstral voices work good with orca? They seem to be the only
> > really natural-sounding voices available for Linux, at least for now.
> > And they are not that expensive either.
> >
> > Josh
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