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

[ace]

Is it possible to use a software DECTalk under Linux?

At 09:00 AM 7/4/04, you wrote:
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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.
> > >- ---
> > >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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>- --
>Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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