Espeaks Software Synth

[Willem van der Walt]

I agree, espeak is good for what it is.
One should be able to get past the locking problem with other sound by 
making espeak produce a temporary .wav file and aplaying it through dmix.
This would require that the other application, the one producing the other 
sound, also can be convinsed to go through dmix.
Regards, Willem



On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:

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> I find Espeak quite easy to listen to when compared to Flite or
> Festival.  And it's much smaller than either one.  The only problem I
> have so far is that when you try to use it while playing a sound on a
> single-channel sound card, it tends to lock so you have to manually kill
> it before you can use it again.  But Espeak does seem to be in active
> development, so maybe this can be fixed soon.  Otherwise, this is about
> the best free open source synth I have heard.
>
> Lorenzo
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> Are you sure the back door is locked?
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