What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available)

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Since I am not yet using Linux, I have not had a chance to hear what the 
various speech synthesizers for Linux sound like. IF someone could send me 
a small wav/MP3 (or tell me where I could acquire sound samples of these 
synthesizers) I'd appreciate it. I wish to use software speech as opposed 
to my DEC Express when I finally get Linux on here.

At 10:58 AM 7/2/04, you wrote:
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>Well, frankly, festival sounds like garbage, worst then the Braille 'n
>Speak or accent in my opinion. When I was using it with gnopernicus, I
>found myself spending more time on understanding what festival was
>saying, then I did on actually using gnopernicus and using gnome. Yes,
>I know, festival is GPL software, and we should be happy that we have
>a GPL software synth at all, but Hynek did ask for comments, so I'm
>posting my own in an attempt to answer his question of what is wrong
>with festival in my opinion, and not in an attempt to start a flame
>war (smile).
>
>Greg
>
>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:51:01PM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do
>better
> > so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the
>other
> > hardware synthesizers.
> >
> > Of course, this is also a question for others.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hynek
> >
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