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

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The entonations 
in particular and some word pronunciations are not good.
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From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 
0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available)


> As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer without a
> hardware synth.  Even if for some reason I might prefer the software 
> synth,
> we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any tweaking to
> our system which might effect the audio output.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke at volny.cz>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM
> Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5
> ReleaseCandidate 1 available)
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote:
>> Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk 
>> and
>> eliquence--thanks
>
> 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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