synthasizers

[Janina Sajka]

Hynek Hanke writes:
> Janina Sajka napsal(a):
>> You have two choices for software speech with Speakup:
>> 1.)	You can buy TTSynth for $40 U.S. and build its speakup-connector
>> 	This is probably the easiest way to get from here to there.
>>   
> Is it? I thought there are problems with dependency

Not a problem on Fedora, Hynek. The compatibility library remains
available and it works. The fact that the tts engine is only 32-bit is
also not an issue on 64-bit systems. I'm happily running TTSynth with
the speakup-connector on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines.

Janina


> on a very old version of libstdc++ and there is no 64bit
> version and no sourcecode so that one is able to fix
> the previous two. If there has been some progress on these
> issues lately, I'd be very happy to hear about them, as I'd
> need to install ttsynth myself to be able to improve the
> Speech Dispatcher output module.
>> 2.)	You can use speech-dispatcher and speechd_up with two free
>> voices and several for pay voices. The free voices are espeak and flite
>> and are both available as rpms. More information on this approach at:
>>   
> Well, Festival is the most important one and now includes
> support for several languages.  I believe it is also available
> as rpm.
>
> With regards,
> Hynek Hanke
>
>
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