software TTS

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

So far, I've found my copy of ttsynth to be useless.  It appears to be
Viavoice under a new name with few (if any) changes.  It still seems to
require outdated libs to get the utilities to run, and there isn't any
documentation on the utilities included.

My problems could be the seller, so where do you plan to get it?

          Kenny

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Darragh wrote:
> Hello, I'm looking for good software TTS.  I don't mind paying for it at this stage as the apollo sounds horrible in my opinion and when using a laptop its not always practicle to plug it in.  
> 
> I'd like something that I can use on a few applications.  At the moment I use/try depending on my mood Gnopernicus, Speakup, Yasr, Emacspeak, BrlTTY, and in a few weeks the SuSE sbl packages.
> 
> So far I've tried Flite, F lite, Festivle and of course the apollo but all have sounded terrible or have been very sluggish.  I've been told about a TTS package from ibm called ttsynth that works with gnopernicus and sbl so I'm thinking of buying that but I'd like your input first.  Does it work with some or all of the above packages and is it responsive in the console and in Gnome?  
> 
> I've had the IBM viavoice package for years but never got it running.  Today I almost got there however I had problems trying to find libXm.so.1 so I think that's going to be left for another very quiet day.  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Darragh
> 
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