Fwd: [orca-list] gnu-speach?

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I grabbed the demo .wav and am not impressed.
Our own tts, speect, is better.
It is available at http://speect.sf.net
It is using hmm tts methods.
It is more natural sounding than gnu speech or espeak, and not IMHO suited 
for screenreader use.
HMM is synthesized sound, modeled after human voices which is actual 
recordings, IE. the computer is tought how speech should sound by giving 
it examples of how a real person would read some given text.
The commercial version of our system, called qfrency, can be listened to 
at http://www.qfrency.com.
Speect sounds the same.
FYI, Willem


On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Jason White wrote:

> Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:
>> Similarly to the below post from the Orca list, is there any chance that a
>> connector for Speakup could be written to use this?  The web page looks
>> interesting.  I'm off to compile it now, if nothing else to see if the
>> speech quality is as good as the web page says.  I would like other opinions
>> on this if anyone here has actually used it.
>
>
> I compiled and tested it at one point. I can't remember how many years ago
> this was done. The speech was difficult to understand and not of high quality.
> However, it may have improved since then. The original developers were speech
> synthesis researchers and the software had to be ported to Linux from a code
> base originally written for NextStep.
>
> A promising project of more recent origin is OpenMary, which, although written
> i Java, seems to offer clear and readily understandable speech, judging by the
> online demonstration site. (The demonstration defaults to German; be sure to
> change the language if you're testing in English.)
>
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