Espeaks Software Synth

[Willem van der Walt]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Michael Whapples wrote:

> 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).
Speech-dispatcher can cut up the text that goes to the synth.  I have 
actually done what i have suggested with another software synth and had no 
problems.  The idea of using the aplayer program is that one can then use 
alsa.
  >
> 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.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
>
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