speakup using different synths with software speech?

[Tyler Littlefield]

I'd like to help out, making it sound a bit more human, anyway. I'm not sure 
how that's all done, though. It'll take some research, I think.

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler at tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: speakup using different synths with software speech?


>    One of the things that people should remember is all the comercial
> speech generation algorythms have patents on them which prevent
> redistribution.
> this is why someone could not just clone eloquence dectalk or whatever.
>
> Mbrola has good voice quality, and is far more human sounding than espeak
> although it is tricky to set up.
> Festival isn't bad but also requires speech dispatcher.
>
> Licenses of festival and mbrola are not gpl at least they aren't for the
> voices anyway.
>
> I'm sure Jonathan duddington (sorry if I can't spell your name mate) would
> accept any constructive help in improving how his speech synthesizer 
> sounds,
> especially to make it more human.
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:21 PM
> Subject: RE: speakup using different synths with software speech?
>
>
> Thanks for that information, as much as it doesn't really answer the
> question except to say if you want improvement, use another synth. Is that
> to mean we won't be seeing any such improvements with Espeak?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Willem van der Walt
> Sent: June 1, 2009 3:38 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: RE: speakup using different synths with software speech?
>
> 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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
>> 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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