speakup using different synths with software speech?

[Willem van der Walt]

There is a way to use mbrola voices with espeak.  It is more 
human-sounding, but getting used to espeak standard voice does not take 
long.
Regards, Willem


On Sun, 31 May 2009, James Homuth wrote:

> Somewhat related, what's the likelyhood of Espeak voices getting
> improvements to be more... I'm not sure what the word for it is, other than
> human-sounding? That's been one of my main sticking points for why I'm still
> with Windows on my primary machine; that, plus I've not until now had time
> to test the accessibility of my particular preferred distribution. I did
> hear a demonstration a while back of a version of Espeak, and while I could
> definitely get used to it, I think I'd like it a whole lot better if it
> didn't sound quite as robotic. I'm not saying it should equal eloquence by
> any means, but the demo I heard kind of reminded me of the old Echo synths
> used on the early Apple computers. Good, but could be better, IMHO. Anyway,
> this was more a rambling/curiosity thing and by no means an attempt at
> criticism as I've not actually gotten it running locally yet, so for all I
> know my version of Espeak could already be improved over the demo I heard.
> 
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> On Behalf Of Hermann
> Sent: May 31, 2009 3:59 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: speakup using different synths with software speech?
> 
> am So 31. Mai 2009 um 21:31:02 schrieb William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com>:
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> > Tyler,
> > 
> > I recommend getting used to espeak.  The version of eloquence on linux 
> > is old, buggy, and they are not planning to upgrade it.
> > 
> He can look here:
> http://voxin.oralux.net/index.php#main
> I've bought a rather new version there a few months ago.
> Works pretty well, but to use it with Speakup Speech-Dispatcher is required.
> Note: Maybe the Emacspeak-server works as well; I remember having seen
> something in the install script.
> Hermann
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