16k voices

[Janina Sajka]

I'm not too worried about it because I expect to do a complete reformat
and reinstall of the second Severn beta next week.

Sina Bahram writes:
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
> 
> Thanks Janina, I'll go take a look at them. Have you had any luck with
> them, and which ones would you personally recommend?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Sina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: 16k voices
> 
> 
> Right on, Jacob.
> 
> But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
> less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
> available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
> of Festival and Flite, by the way.
> 
> 
> Jacob Schmude writes:
> > From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude at adelphia.net>
> > 
> > Hi
> > Honestly, I'd recommend a hardware solution at this point. There are 
> > 16k voices out there for festival, flite and freetts. However, that
> doesn't necessarily
> > have anything at all to do with the quality of the voice. Festival,
> flite, and freetts (software synthesizers) all use the same basic
> voices. These voices are, in 
> > my opinion, terrible. Oh, they're clear due to there being 16K, but
> their inflection is almost nonexistant and, due to the pronunciation
> they use, they tend to be 
> > difficult to understand. You can get the software synths and voices
> at:
> > festival: http://www.festvox.org/
> > flite (festival lite): http://cmuflite.org
> > freetts (java-based speech engine) http://freetts.sf.net/
> > As of right now, festival is the only software synthesizer supposedly
> supported by speakup 1.5. I say supposedly because I've never gotten it
> working 
> > satisfactorily. You need to apply a patch and run an add-on daemon,
> but it's incredibly slow to respond, doesn't allow changing of voice
> parameters like rate 
> > and pitch, and hasn't been updated or changed since april according to
> the filename. You can get the patch at:
> > http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux
> > if you want to try it.
> > IMHO, the only good linux software synth is software dectalk, but that
> costs $50 and speakup doesn't work with it yet. Hint, hint, speakup
> developers? Any 
> > chance it'll ever be supported?
> > If you need help getting the software synthesizer working, let me
> know. It can be a bit of work, especially if you're going to try
> festival. Software Speech is 
> > one of the two major areas in which linux lags behind, I think, the
> other being OCR.
> > HTH
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:47 -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> > 
> > >Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 
> > >16k voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be 
> > >availible, and if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible 
> > >these days.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175