software TTS

[hank smith]

where can I hear what the fada voices sound like?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Haneman" <Bill.Haneman at Sun.COM>
To: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com>
Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: software TTS


> Darragh:
>
> I've used gnome-speech drivers for Theta with very good results.  So far 
> this seems to be the best choice for quality, cost, and reliability so 
> far.  However, I don't know what the availability of the Theta voices is 
> like at the moment, as Cepstral has moved to a new product which they call 
> 'Swift'.  Ask Will Walker about whether the gnome-speech Theta drivers 
> work with Swift...
>
> Bill
>
> 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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