Re: [orca-list] gnu-speach?

[John Heim <john johnheim net>]

It sounds more like a natural human voice than espeak but is not nearly 
as good at pronounciation.  It's as if it has a bad accent.

Sounding more natural might not be a bonus. I know a lot of people, 
myself included, find espeak kind of harsh. But people have told me that 
that is actually it's strength. That quality that we perceive as 
harshness is what makes espeak intelligible at very high speech rates. I 
don't know if that's true but it's true that I have espeak cranked up 
way faster than I have Robert on my Mac.


On 10/22/2015 07:54 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If you are wondering how it sounds like then you may find the 
> following wave file interesting.... 
> http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/extra-synthesis-examples/lumberjack.wav
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 22.10.2015 at 12:16 Kyle wrote:
> > This certainly looks interesting, but I'm not sure that we'll be able
> > to use it, since if I'm reading correctly, it's heavily dependent on
> > GNUStep, which doesn't have a screen reader to my knowledge.
> > Sent from my cookie jar
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