Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Lorenzo Prince]

I have heard of FreeTTS.  It's written in java I think, but not 100% sute
about that.  I know it can use Mbrola voices and probably in that case can
use Festival voices as well.  I do have Festival running on my laptop,
which is running Slackware 9.0.  In a day or so, if you want, I can build
it again and see if I can use the checkinstall package to create a
precompiled Slackware package for Festival.  Hopefully, this will take a
lot of the confusion out of building it.

Lorenzo

Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment.
	-- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing

Adam Myrow staggered into view and mumbled:

> Hi.  I know others have fiddled with the CVS snapshots of Gnopernicus.
> The Gnome-speech documentation states that it currently supports Festival,
> IBM Viavoice, and FreeTTS.  I've never heard of FreeTTS.  Has anybody
> tried it?  Does it sound halfway decent?  Is it easier to build than
> Festival?  I'd like to play with Gnopernicus to see what state it is in,
> but the last time I attempted to build Festival, I got so confused that I
> gave up.  I'm not too keen on Viavoice since it's pretty much abandoned.
> If nobody has heard of FreeTTS, has anybody built Festival on Slackware 9
> and actually used it?  Thanks for any info.
>
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