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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've got the cepstral voices, they're decent, not
as good as at&t natural voices, or neospeech, but definetly better then
something like flextalk or even realspeak for that matter. </FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jschmude@adelphia.net href="mailto:jschmude@adelphia.net">Jacob
Schmude</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=speakup@braille.uwo.ca
href="mailto:speakup@braille.uwo.ca">speakup@braille.uwo.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: 16k voices</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="MS Shell Dlg" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT size=1
DEFAULT="SIZE" POINTSIZE="8">Hi<BR>I've been thinking of trying cepstral out,
what's the quality of it? Their little tts demo on the site really doesn't
give me much of a feel for the voices. Since its the commercial side of
festival, can it emulate the festival server and thus be used by anything
supporting festival?<BR><BR><BR>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina
Sajka wrote:<BR><BR>>Right on, Jacob.<BR>><BR>>But, there is another
software synth that's worth the money, and it's<BR>>less money than
software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices<BR>>available at <FONT
color=#0000ff><U>http://www.cepstral.com<FONT color=#000000
DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>. Cepstral are the commercial side<BR>>of Festival and
Flite, by the
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