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

[Garrett Klein]

Festival is under a BSD-style license.

Garrett
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher
0.5Release Candidate 1 available)


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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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