Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Lorenzo Prince]

I just downloaded the Mbrola voices.  Is there a way to possibly link
Flite to these voices?  Or is there a working Emacspeak server for
Festival?  Also, if anyone has used the Mbrola voices, can you give me
some pointers on what I need to do to get them working with Festival?

Thanks
Lorenzo

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Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled:

> Hi
> Unfortunately what you get in that file is what's called a limited domain
> voice. This means it only knows how to say certain things, such as numbers
> for the time. The generic voices sound exactly like flite, unless you link
> it to the mbrola voices. That will give you better quality but it will be
> much less responsive. Based on what I've experimented with I'd say freetts
> and festival are on par with responsiveness, flite being much faster. And
> since FreeTTS's generic voices are identical to flite's, I wind up just
> using flite when I need software speech.
>
>
> At 19:07 4/28/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >At 08:39 PM 4/28/2003 -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> >>Does it sound halfway decent?
> >
> >http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/audio/12-35.wav sounds good enough to me.
>