Anybody heard of Fretts?

Tue Apr 29 00:23:38 EDT 2003

Hi, I have FreeTTS on my system. It works great. It sounds exactly like
festival. Unlike festival it is extremely portible and you don't have to
compile anything becaus FreeTTS is java based.

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:39 PM
Subject: Anybody heard of Fretts?

> 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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