Re: [orca-list] New Linux user, needing higher quality speech...

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

It's hard to respond precisely here since the original thread was 
tossed, but I recall the person saying that some voices worked better 
than others, so I don't see a problem suggesting voxin as another 
option. It does sound different than eSpeak. I also thing there were 
only two posts pointing out Voxin as an option and neither recommended 
it, so saying that people are continuing to recommend Voxin is a bit of 
an overstatement.

On 05/15/2015 07:54 AM, Kyle wrote:
> The original poster was asking about high quality voices, and mentioned
> being new to modern Linux in general. Why then do people continue to
> recommend something like Voxin or whatever they're calling it these
> days, which is by no means a high quality voice, and is not only hard to
> understand, but also hard to get installed into most distros? He said
> he's having trouble hearing robotic and unclear voices, therefore, he
> will need to either get tips on how to make Festival work or use the
> Mbrola configuration for Espeak. Some of the Festival voices do actually
> sound quite good, although nothing feels as responsive as Espeak here.
> Much of the robotics of Espeak can be fixed by making variant voices,
> although they have to be made as separate voices, as variant files don't
> currently work with speech-dispatcher. As for festival, it should be
> possible to load in the voices you want and enable a startup service
> that runs
> festival --server
> I need to try that here, but I have heard recent reports that this does
> indeed work. Best Festival voices include bdl and slt. I think these are
> available in Arch using the festival-us package, but other distros have
> different names for this package.
> Sent from my title page

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