Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Mitchell Smith]

FreeTTS is a Java rewrite of Festival basicly.

I find it to be a tad more responsive than Festival, but not as responcive as flite.

you can find it at http://freetts.sourceforge.net

> 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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