festival and ViaVoice

festival and ViaVoice

[Martin McCormick]

	How much does ViaVoice cost?  I understand that Festival
is free, but a good synthesizer for use in access technology
needs to be able to talk faster than is comfortable to listen to.
One can always slow it down but it is hard to enjoy listening to
one that won't speek fast enough

Martin McCormick

Re: festival and ViaVoice

[xander]

  > 
  > 	How much does ViaVoice cost?  I understand that Festival
  > is free, but a good synthesizer for use in access technology
I believe it's freely downloadable at least for Linux.

gr,
xander

Re: festival and ViaVoice

[Ron Marriage]

Here is the link you want.

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/index.html

>From the drop down menu you want to download the tts
runtime kit and the sdk kit.  These are the only two files
you need.

Ron




On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, B. Alan Mattison wrote:
> Hi Ron,
> Where can you currently get a copy if ViaVoice?  I tried to find it on the
> IBM web page a couple of months, but it wasn't apparent where to get the TTS
> engine.  Please post a URL for it if you have it.  If not, hopefully someone
> else can put the URL on this list.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Marriage" <marriage@seidata.com>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:39 PM
> Subject: Re: festival and ViaVoice
> 
> 
> > Via-voice comes in both formats.
> > The Text to speech sdk and runtime files are available
> > and this is usually what is referred to on this list.
> > The via-voice TTS works nicely with emacspeak
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > It looks like I misunderstood what ViaVoice is.  It is
> > > not a text-to-speech engine but a speech-to-text engine.  It is
> > > a useful tool, but I had thought it was a speech synthesizer
> > > engine.  If you get on google and enter
> > > ibm viavoice download software, it takes you right to ibm and you
> > > can read all about it.
> > >
> > > I think I will try to install Festival and see what it is
> > > like on a 233-MHZ Pentium.
> > >
> > > Martin McCormick
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Re: festival and ViaVoice

[B. Alan Mattison]

Hi Ron,
Where can you currently get a copy if ViaVoice?  I tried to find it on the
IBM web page a couple of months, but it wasn't apparent where to get the TTS
engine.  Please post a URL for it if you have it.  If not, hopefully someone
else can put the URL on this list.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Marriage" <marriage@seidata.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: festival and ViaVoice


> Via-voice comes in both formats.
> The Text to speech sdk and runtime files are available
> and this is usually what is referred to on this list.
> The via-voice TTS works nicely with emacspeak
>
> Ron
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > It looks like I misunderstood what ViaVoice is.  It is
> > not a text-to-speech engine but a speech-to-text engine.  It is
> > a useful tool, but I had thought it was a speech synthesizer
> > engine.  If you get on google and enter
> > ibm viavoice download software, it takes you right to ibm and you
> > can read all about it.
> >
> > I think I will try to install Festival and see what it is
> > like on a 233-MHZ Pentium.
> >
> > Martin McCormick
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Blinux-list mailing list
> > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> --
> Ron Marriage
> Email     marriage@seidata.com
> Homepage  http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/
>
>
>
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Re: festival and ViaVoice

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	It looks like I misunderstood what ViaVoice is.  It is
> not a text-to-speech engine but a speech-to-text engine.  It is
> a useful tool, but I had thought it was a speech synthesizer
> engine. 

You need to look for ViaVoice "OutLoud" which is actually a text to speech
engine.


Nicolas

Re: festival and ViaVoice

[Ron Marriage]

Via-voice comes in both formats.
The Text to speech sdk and runtime files are available
and this is usually what is referred to on this list.
The via-voice TTS works nicely with emacspeak

Ron


On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> It looks like I misunderstood what ViaVoice is.  It is
> not a text-to-speech engine but a speech-to-text engine.  It is
> a useful tool, but I had thought it was a speech synthesizer
> engine.  If you get on google and enter
> ibm viavoice download software, it takes you right to ibm and you
> can read all about it.
> 
> 	I think I will try to install Festival and see what it is
> like on a 233-MHZ Pentium.
> 
> Martin McCormick
> 
> 
> 
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> Blinux-list@redhat.com
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Re: festival and ViaVoice

[Martin McCormick]

	It looks like I misunderstood what ViaVoice is.  It is
not a text-to-speech engine but a speech-to-text engine.  It is
a useful tool, but I had thought it was a speech synthesizer
engine.  If you get on google and enter
ibm viavoice download software, it takes you right to ibm and you
can read all about it.

	I think I will try to install Festival and see what it is
like on a 233-MHZ Pentium.

Martin McCormick