Espeaks Software Synth

[Michael Whapples]

I think William's suggestion of getting espeak to produce a temporary wave 
file and getting another program to play that might give better results on 
some systems. On my laptop the conf file I posted earlier gives me no 
problems on my laptop (except that it uses oss instead of alsa), but on my 
desktop that conf file seems to not allow silencing (and when using my 
Terratec DMX6fire card (ICE1712 driver), I also get very poor response) but 
by making the change to have another app to play the sound these problems 
disappear on my desktop. Also I guess it would be possible to get it to use 
alsa with that output system. My only concern with that is, with large 
amounts of text, you may get poor response as espeak will have to process 
all the text before the wave file is ready (I don't know if 
speech-dispatcher seperates large text into smaller chunks).

also if you want to give espeak a different accent, you supposedly can, have 
a look at some of the docs about voices, dictionaries, etc, I think you are 
stuck with the voice itself though, as they haven't released the voice 
creation tools. There has been a little mention about it on the espeak 
forum.

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Michael Whapples