Re: [orca-list] speech quality

[Geoff Shang <geoff QuiteLikely com>]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Melissa wrote:

> I was wondering if the Orca project has considered using larger stored speech 
> units for the speech synthesizer in order to improve speech quality.

Hi Melissa,

Orca is simply a screen reading software.  It doesn't actually do the 
speech synthesis, it sends the text to be spoken to other software that 
does the actual speaking.

There are a number of synthetic speech synthesis packages supported by 
Orca, though the one you're likely hearing is Espeak which is normally the 
default speech synthesiser due to its small size, liberal license andd 
responsiveness.

Assuming it is indeed Espeak that you are hearing and therefore enquiring 
about, you may find more joy at the Espeak website 
http://espeak.sourceforge.net

HTH,
Geoff.