Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Lorenzo Prince]

Where can I find it?  I saw a page for one on Sourceforge, but it seemed
to be a dead project.  It had o released files and the project homepage
wouldn't load.

Lorenzo

"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"
Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
	-- Felix von Leitner, leitner at inf.fu-berlin.de

Thomas D. Ward staggered into view and mumbled:

> 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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