Re: [orca-list] new text to speech project based on Festival Lite

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

I got mimic working.  The package appears to have lots of keyboard 
latency, but speech quality is no problem to understand.

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Mike Gorse wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 00:16:41
> From: Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>
> To: Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>
> Cc: orca <Orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] new text to speech project based on Festival Lite
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm reviving a very old thread (just found this message while cleaning out my 
> inbox), but I took a look at the git repository and found that the most 
> recent commit is from about a month ago. Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone 
> has tried it and, if so, how it compares to espeak-ng--I wonder if it would 
> be worth writing a speech-dispatcher driver for it (presumably, the flite 
> driver could be used as a starting point). I might give it a try if/when I 
> can get it to build (it seems to want a different version of pcre than the 
> one I have installed at the moment).
>
> -Mike
>
> On Sun, 1 May 2016, Jason White wrote:
>
> >  The developers seem to be striving to achieve a high quality of speech. It
> >  isn't clear what the differences from Festival Lite (Flite) are, but this
> >  project may be worth watching.
> >
> >  https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic.git
> >
> >  Home page: https://mimic.mycroft.ai/
> >
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