speakup and emacspeak

[Thomas D. Ward]

There are better voices out there for flite.
Flite only comes with the 8 k voices which are really pore.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: speakup and emacspeak


> Too bad.  I thought viavoice sounded better than flite.   Unless of course
> someone can tell me of a better voice to compile into it and where I can
> get it.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> E Pluribus Unix
>
> Thomas D. Ward staggered into view and mumbled:
>
> > Well, Viavoice is a bit of a catch 22. IBM is no longer maintaining
> > viavoice, and  as I understand it people are not really allowed to
> > redistribute it any more. So end result is it has dried up on the net.
> > In all honesty since Outloud is not being maintained any more it's
rapidly
> > get out of date, and harder and harder to run on newer Linux systems. It
is
> > problably better to build something like flite with 16k voices, and
stick
> > with that.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 6:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: speakup and emacspeak
> >
> >
> > > Where can I get Viavoice now?  IBM doesn't have it, and they don't
even
> > > seem to be selling it anywhere.  I really wanted to try this synth.
Can
> > > anyone help me?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lorenzo
> > >
> > > E Pluribus Unix
> > >
> > > Thomas D. Ward staggered into view and mumbled:
> > >
> > > > Actually, I use viavoice, with emacspeak. I was just telling the
person
> > on
> > > > list if he wants to use his Express uner emacspeak he willhave to
> > completely
> > > > stop and restart Linux to use the express under emacspeak..
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Christopher Moore <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net>
> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:24 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: speakup and emacspeak
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Thomas,
> > > > > Try running emacspeak with eflite. Then you can emacs in one
console
> > and
> > > > > speakup in another at the same time.  Emacspeak also supports
fonix, a
> > > > > software dectalk express (available for $50).
> > > > > End result is that speakup never vanishes to the point of being
able
> > to
> > > > use
> > > > > the com port for something else.
> > > > >
> > > > > Chris
> > > > > --
> > > > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (61% of Full)
> > > > >
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