Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

I'm using DECtalk e.  It was a free upgrade from version 4.  You might
want to try it and see if it fixes your problem.

I did impro8e the speech by adding additional palameters to my say
commands.
I added

[:dv ri 90 sm 0][:pe -380][:ra 350][:dv ap 130]

Hope this helps.
           Kenny
	   
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:15:00PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Luke:
> 
> I've tried both flite and DEC Talk 4. I haven't bought 5 and don't plan
> to. Response is the same. The speech is extremely choppy so that I'm
> only comfortable hearing it while reviewing the screen.
> 
> Last year I had a Thinkpad T30 which was much better. So, I don't
> understand where the breakdown is.
> 
> Luke Yelavich writes:
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> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:55:13AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > May I say that I am unhappy with the lack of responsivness using
> > > software speech with Speakup on a 1.13 Ghz machine? So, I can barely
> > > grok a Pentium 90.
> > 
> > Is that with flite/festival? As I am using DecTalk 5 on a 
> > ThinkPad R50, 1.4Ghz and it is very responsive.
> > - -- 
> > Luke
> 
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