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

[Igor Gueths]

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Hey Ace, what you may be looking for is the software Dectalk. 
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:23:22AM -0700, ace wrote:
> 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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> >Joseph C. Lininger
> >jbahm at pcdesk.net
> >note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact 
> >if quoting me in a reply.
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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)
> >
> >
> >>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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> Robby
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