linux and accessibility applications

[Saqib Shaikh]

Two very different advantages to FreeTTS over Festival:

1.  Festival is very slow, and is written in C++ and Scheme, etc.  It is
made as a research project with the main aim being speech synthesis
research.  Then you have Flite which is a port of Festival written
completely in ANSI C and thus a lot faster.  Finally you have FreeTTS which
is a rewrite of Flite in Java.  They claim that the Java version is as fast,
if not faster, than the C version, but I'm not convinced.

2.  The completely separate reason why FreeTTS exists is that Sun have made
a Speech SDK, so that people can write talking applications - but an SDK is
no good without a TTS engine.  And no Java TTS engines will exist until
people use the Speech SDK - chicken and egg.  So Sun thought the easiest
thing was to take an open source TTS engine and write a Java version of it.

Saqib
 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Ryan Mann
Sent: 16 March 2004 01:05
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications

What is the advantage of FreeTTS over Festival?  FreeTTS is written in Java
so I would think it would be more of a memory hogg than Festival.


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, nick G wrote:

> I'd like to see FreeTTS in place of festival.  Festival is bad, for, you!
> Thanks,
> Nick
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> From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:15 PM
> Subject: linux and accessibility applications
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm looking for some feedback, and basically what I want to know is
this.
> > What accessibility applications are out there for linux besides 
> > gnopernicus, speakup,  emacspeak, brltty and the speechd thing?
> >
> > The other thing I should ask I think, is, what accessibility 
> > software would people like to see in a distro? (meaning software 
> > that's already
> > written)
> >
> > I'm project lead for the gentoo accessibility project 
> > 'http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/accessibility', and what I'd 
> > like to do is get a list together of packages we don't have for 
> > accessibility, and work on getting those available for our users. 
> > Currently we have most of the gnome-accessibility packages, speakup 
> > in some of the kernel sources, brltty, (which is currently in testing)
festival, and speechd.
> >
> > Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Deedra
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