espeakup vs speechd-up and speech dispatcher

[Bill Cox]

No, I don't think updating your pulseaudio driver will fix it.  Voice
preference is a matter of preference, and at low speeds, I hate the
voxin voice, too.  But at 500-ish words per minute or higher, it's the
best game in town, at least with the US-English voice.

Could you use the attached program to create a voice sample and post
it so I can hear it?  That will let me know if it's normal or broken.
Just type:

    tar -xvzf say.tar.gz
    cd say
    make
    ./say -s100 -w sample.wav "This is just some random text I'm using
to test ibmtts.  Feel free to type a lot here."

This should create a voice file you can e-mail to this list, at just a
bit slower than I like.  Be sure to play it to with mplayer, or some
such thing, so you are sure it sounds the same as what you normally
hear.

Thanks,
Bill

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Glenn Ervin <GlennErvin at cableone.net> wrote:
> Bill,
> I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, and Voxin, but the IBM voice sounds like Microsoft
> Sam, which you probably know is worse than eSpeak.  Do you think that
> updating my pulseaudio driver will fix this?
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: espeakup vs speechd-up and speech dispatcher
>
>
> If you plan to use espeak, and have no interest in other voices, then
> espeakup is almost certainly the better choice.  I use speechd-up with
> speech-dispatcher patched with a new pulseaudio driver, and I think
> it's great, but thats because I use the voxin ibmtt voice.
>
> Bill
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Pia <pmikeal at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Does anyone have any experience with using espeakup vs using the
>> combination
>> of speechd-up and speech dispatcher? I am wondering which is better if I
>> plan to use espeak as my synth. Which is more stable and which takes up
>> less computing resources.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pia
>>
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