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

[kk <krmane gmail com>]

Totaly agreed, it is a matter of choice,
although I haited eloquence and voxin I think other's may love it.
By the way I am interested in that festival stuff and the voices Kile 
mentioned.
How to get this working?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Saturday 16 May 2015 04:32 AM, B.Henry wrote:
> Kyle, I understand your point of view, but this kind of post is really 
> once again preaching in my opinion. Those who can and wish to go FOS 
> or bust are already doing so, and those who can't or won't switch away 
> from Voxin will not be convinced.
> I personally prefer espeak by a lot for English, but people with 
> hearing loss issues find many synths unusable.
> Also voxin works on several distros, and very popular ones out of the 
> box, e.g. Arch, Manjaro, Debian...
> My limited experience with mbrola did not impress me so far, and 
> festival has been problematic for even some fairly experienced folks 
> to get working.
> If it is important to someone to try and get people using something 
> other than eloquence, aka Voxin, aka viavoice... then I think making 
> good new voices for existing synths such as espeak will be helpful. 
> I've made a few, but I am not sure whether or not  they will help many 
> people who have a hard time hearing existing espeak voices.
> The bottom line is that quality is a subjective term, and although 
> certain aspects of quality can be objectively measured at the end of 
> the day we are talking about personal prefference. Saying that 
> eloquence is not high quality is at best a personal opinion. Again 
> this comes from someone who uses ESpeak.
> I've seen mailing lists degenerate in to spaces doninated by "my voice 
> is better than yours" conversations for days on end where the clutter 
> of voice prefference posts makes it annoying to look for the other 
> content being posted.
> I've sure seen more email from people who can't get festival to work 
> than those who have had trouble installing Voxin, and Voxin certainly 
> is easy to install on the distro the original poster is usiing.
>
>
>      B.H.
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> On 15/05/15 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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