From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost.localdomain (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE683EFF5 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:39:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (IDENT:root@lacrosse.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.154]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2MGdmm22074 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:39:48 -0500 Received: (from mail@localhost) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g2MGdmQ15970 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:39:48 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2MGdmi15966 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:39:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2MGdmm22070 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:39:48 -0500 Received: from lexx.delysid.org (mail@212186194087.graz.teleweb.at [212.186.194.87]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2MGbg932072 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:37:42 -0500 Received: from mlang by lexx.delysid.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16oS4z-0001u9-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:39:49 +0100 To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020321100207.00c224c0@mhub.doit.wisc.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020322085049.00a7f1d0@facstaff.wisc.edu> From: Mario Lang In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020322085049.00a7f1d0@facstaff.wisc.edu> (Jack Heim's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:14:40 -0600") Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:39:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87sn6s7e0e.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Jack Heim writes: ViaVoice with Emacspeak is the best choice for now. Only available for i386. Flite and emacspeak work too (i386 and ARM). But flite has the disadvantage that it only works for one voice type right now. ViaVoice for instance can provide more different voices, and that makes voice-lock-mode in Emacspeak alot more fun :). My advice is, try to get viavoice running. It delivers the best quality right now, and apart from being non-commercially free only, its very good. I am still wondering why IBM doesn't release different languuuages. The API allows for german, spanish and so on, but its now 3 or 4 years and they did only release english version for Linux. I guess that IBM in really just bought the eloquence engine, thats what libeci indicates to me. And eloquence is good. It would be extremely nice if IBM would release some other languages too. About festival: The reason why you found only vague things is that Festival is simply not the right thing to use. Its a academic tool, and its not the fastest. About 2 years ago I tried to write a speech server for Emacspeak+Festival in perl. It more or less worked at some point, but I realized that its simply to slow and therefore unusable... -- CYa, Mario