speech ingens

[Steve Holmes]

Is it possible to use flite instead of festival? I would like to dabble
with emacspeak a bit and I understand one cannot use festival with
it.  But since I can't get flite to compile here, that might be a moot
point anyhow.  Do I have to beware of any special tricks or hints to
install festival?

I'm running Slackware 9.1 here and do not mind compiling and
installing from sources.  That would probably be much easier than
trying to force in a debian package or some such.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:18:30PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> As far as a free software synth festival is the best there is right now.  If
> you want a synth that sounds better there is the Dectalk software from Fonix
> which costs about $50, but one problem is that is very slow while editing
> text documents in gedit where festival is very prompt for me. As for
> festival sounding like a chipmunk I can tell you that is not normal
> behavior. There can be one of two problems here.
> 
> 1. Configuring the speech rate, pitch etc.. If you haven't already done so
> switch to layer 8 and configure your speech to how you want it to sound.
> 2. Some sound cards under Fedora don't get properly configured causing sound
> cards to make speech sound very strange. I tried Fedora a while back and my
> dectalk software sounded like a chipmunk no matter what I did to set the
> pitch and rate, but when I removed Fedora and put Mandrake 9.2 on the
> problem totally vanished. So there seams to be something up with Fedora and
> soundcards.
> In fact, every software speech system I tried had the same problems under
> Fedora, and the all work fine on the same computer with Mandrake. Any
> conclusions?
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