flite compile errors

[Alex Snow]

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Yeah I noticed those voice files took a long time to compile...but 
I'll try creating the swapfile and see what I get.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 
at 10:32:36AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> How much swap space do you have?  Flite requires a *huge* amount of memory 
> to build successfully.  If you have some free hard drive space, I'd set up 
> a large temporary swap file.  Seriously, I'd suggest at least 1GB of swap. 
> The reason it requires such a tremendous amount of memory to build is that 
> the voice is entirely in C, and is like 20MB of source code.  I don't 
> recall the exact numbers, but I was surprised that something which 
> requires such a huge amount of memory to build can run in a fairly small 
> amount once built.  Another option is a pre-built binary.  Somebody once 
> put together a binary package for Slackware of Flite that used the 16-bit 
> voice which improves fidelity somewhat.  I can't remember who it was, 
> though.  Maybe, it's still in the list archive somewhere.
> 
> Flite is an OK synthesizer, but somewhat flat and lifeless sounding.  It 
> also has some strange pronunciation rules.  For example, it consistently 
> pronounces Linux as if the x at the end weren't there.  It also tries to 
> process abbreviations which all the modern synthesizers seem to do.  It 
> drives me nuts when they decide to treat part of an email address as an 
> abbreviation.
> 
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