Looking for Best Linux Text to Speech?

[John G. Heim]

I just picked the first voice which happened to be Calli and it sounds 
great to me. In fact, I made some ring tones and my friends now think my 
phone sounds sexy.



On 09/01/13 05:45, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Some Cepstral voices are disappointing. If you want to explore their demos,
> be sure to consider the voices David and William.  Both are excellent. I
> have yet to find a satisfactory female voice among their many downloads.
>
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> On Sun, 1 Sep 2013, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
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>> I agree about the Cepstral voices, except they will only give you wav
>> output from a textg file. From there it would be: lame to go to mp3, oggenc
>> to go to ogg, and sox to go to gsm, etc. Nice  opportunity for a bit of
>> bash scripting.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, John G. Heim wrote:
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>>> The Cepstral voices are excellent. If responsiveness is not important, they
>>> are great. It depends on what you consider a reasonable cost.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/31/13 19:43, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
>>>> I'm looking for Linux software for good sounding text to speech, either free
>>>> or at a reasonable cost. I am not looking for a synthesizer but rather
>>>> software to turn text files into sound files in wav, mp3, gsm, etc.
>>>> Currently, I'm using the old IBM ViaVoice. Any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
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