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

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
For a small demo of Festival, grab http://jaybird.no-ip.info/festival.wav
Hope this helps.
Jayson

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From: "ace" <ace at tundra-com.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5
Release Candidate 1 available)


> 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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