can't get espeak working with speech dispatcher and speechd-up

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:39:35PM +0100, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> I wonder whether anyone uses any of the English voice variants other
> than the standard?  Feel free to experiment with attributes in the
> espeak-data/voices  files, as described in  docs/voices.html, and let
> me know if anyone comes up with a good sounding variant.    
> 

When I was setting up espeak, I passed the file names in
espeak-data/voices/ along with the -v flag to the speak binary. While
I could tell that the voices were different, I didn't notice much of a
difference, and decided to stick with the standard voice. The standard
voice isn't bad, I again suggested more voices as having general
potential for espeak's improvement, and not as an implication that the
standard voice, or the other voices for that matter were unsatisfactory.

> That's an easy one!  Here's a modified  espeak-data/en-dict  file (for
> eSpeak version 1.11) that says "one-hundred-sixty-eight".  Is that how
> you say it, or is it just for convenience with being shorter?
> 

Thanks, that's more like what I'm used to listening. I usually say it
as one-sixty-eight, and I might say it sometimes as one-hundred-sixty-eight. I've never said it before
though as one-hundred-and-sixty-eight. However, most, if not all
synths I've used over the years say full numbers as
one-hundred-sixty-eight, so that's what I've become used to listening.

Greg




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