text to speech software

Bryce C plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
22 Dec 2002 11:58:57 -0700


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I haven't figured out yet how to slow my festival down.  It read my
fstab in 10 seconds.  That's a little too fast.


On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 11:13, der.hans wrote:
> Am 19. Dec, 2002 schw=E4tzte Mike Starke so:
>=20
> > Is there any text to speech software one would recommend
> > for Linux? Preferably OS.
>=20
> emacspeak-ss - Emacspeak speech server for several synthesizers
> festival - speech synthesis system
> recite - English text speech synthesizer
> cowsay - a configurable talking cow
> emacspeak - speech output interface to Emacs
> flite - a small run-time speech synthesis engine
> konq-speaker - text-to-speech plugins for Konqueror and Kate
>=20
> There was work being done to get flite working well enough to use on the
> iPAQ.
>=20
> I've only used festival. Feeding it something with lots of symbols is kin=
da
> fun. It had timing problems, e.g. starts subsequent sentences before
> finishing the sentence it's on, so you get two layers of speech. I don't
> know anyone else who's gotten that effect, so I must be special.
>=20
> ciao,
>=20
> der.hans
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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