A small software synthesiser, espeak

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May I see that file?

At 05:41 PM 4/9/2006, you wrote:
>I came across this, and it might be interesting for those of you 
>trying to find a small, high quality, open source software speech synthesiser.
>Espeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net), it is definitely smaller 
>than some of the alternatives at 350kb for the installation. The 
>quality is understandable (it supposedly uses a different algorithm 
>to some other open source ones so sounds different), but not to the 
>same level as some commercial ones. Also it has some other language 
>support, but that is in early stages supposedly.
>I have managed to get it working on my laptop with speech-dispatcher 
>with a modified generic.conf file, and getting fairly good response 
>from it. So if any one would like to see that file, I can give you 
>that. Installation instructions are in the commands.html file. Also 
>to get it working with gentoo, it required some things not 
>documented, it requires libportaudio.so.0 but portaudio only has 
>libportaudio.so, just create a link. I was unable to compile it, but 
>the linux binary works with that link.
>
>From
>Michael Whapples
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