Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Thomas D. Ward]

Yes there is.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: Anybody heard of Fretts?


> Thanks.  Is there an emacspeak server for Festival? I only know of one for
> Flite.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff
> on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
> -- Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi
>
> Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled:
>
> > Hi
> > Unfortunately I know of no way to link the mbrola voices to flite.
However,
> > to link it to festival is rather simple:
> > There are four files in the festival voice download site:
> > festvox_en1.tar.gz
> > festvox_us1.tar.gz
> > festvox_us2.tar.gz
> > festvox_us3.tar.gz
> > You only need one of these, depending on which mbrola voice you'd like
to
> > link it too. Extract the voices as you would normally. Next, go into the
> > directory created by these voices and extract the corresponding mbrola
zip
> > file (make sure you preserve paths). Finally, put the mbrola binary in
your
> > path, mine's in /usr/local/bin.
> > Now, edit voices.scm (sometimes it's location varies, mine's in
> > /usr/local/festival/lib). Move the xx#_mbrola item to the top of the
voices
> > list, where XX# is the name of the corresponding mbrola voice. Mine is
> > us2_mbrola
> > and i've got it at the top of the voices list. If you don't want to edit
> > that file, you can remove any other festival voices you have, so the
mbrola
> > voice is the only one there.
> >
> > HTH
> >
>
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