FreeTTS

[Tony Baechler]

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I read about this quite a few years ago.  Sun released it, but I don't
know if anything is done with it now since Oracle took over.  It's
packaged in Debian and requires Java.  I've never heard a demo of it, so I
don't know if the quality is any good.  Can anyone here comment on it?  I
didn't see any way to get it to work with Speech-Dispatcher and I couldn't
get it to speak anything when I tried, but I'm not a programmer and I'm
sure I did something wrong.  It was at freetts.sourceforge.net but I don't
know nowadays.  It looks like OpenMary might use components of it or might
be based on it somehow, but I have no idea.

Interestingly, since we're talking about the future direction of Speakup,
here is the quote of the day from Wikipedia, for whatever it's worth:

      The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help
solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. ... No problem
is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

- --Richard Feynman

<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman>
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