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

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I just heard a wav file of Festival's voice. IT sounds OK; it's 
understandable, but could use some inflection.

At 08:34 PM 7/3/04, you wrote:

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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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>- ----- Original Message ----- 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)
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>>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)
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>>
>>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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