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

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Luke,

That's just it though. I have not been able to get the Dectalk's say
program working on modern versions of Ubuntu past 10.04 or so. I
haven't honestly put a lot of time tracking down why it isn't working,
but I have tried to get it to work with no luck. In the end I just
chose to forgo any hassle and go with Espeak which just works out of
the box.



On 5/17/15, Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:13:44PM AEST, Kyle wrote:
> > If DECTalk's say program still works, it may be possible to write a
> > generic speech-dispatcher configuration for it, but I doubt you'll get
> > the rate and pitch control you need, unless these things are built into
> > the say program itself somehow.
>
> There is already a generic configuration for DECtalk, and its shipped with
> Speech DIspatcher today, you just need to enable it in the config file.
>
> As I said in a previous post, a proper driver could be written, but I don't
> see the demand, given not a lot of people knew about DECtalk for Linux when
> it was available, whichi it no longer is, so far as I know.
>
> Luke
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