Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Saqib Shaikh]

FreeTTS is a port of Festival/Flite to the Java programming language, and
thus sounds the same.

Saqib


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Adam Myrow
Sent: 29 April 2003 02:40
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
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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