Re: [orca-list] gnu-speach?

[kk <krmane gmail com>]

+1 Jonh,
I also use espeak in my native language (Hindi ) and although it sounds 
a bit unnatural, I still find the pronunciations very clear even at high 
speech rate.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Thursday 22 October 2015 07:56 PM, John Heim wrote:
> 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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