A small software synthesiser, espeak

[hank smith]

can I hear a sample of this synth?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4 at msn.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 2:41 PM
Subject: A small software synthesiser, espeak


>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.
>
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> Michael Whapples
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