speech ingens

[Alex Snow]

there are good instructions on installing festival at 
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/gnopernicus.html.
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Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:12:12AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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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