Re: 16k voices

Re: 16k voices

[Chris]

What about trying festival lite?  Or even viavoice.

now, granted, if you are on Redhat, then I understand viavoice to be a pain
to install...  matt Campbell did it for me, but he practicly from what I
understood, partially had to recompile the source to match the kurnel in
redhat 9.


these are just a few options though that are free.


Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:12 PM
Subject: 16k voices


> Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 16k
> voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be availible, and
> if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible these days. I must
> say I am interested in software and not hardware solutions and synths.
> The main constraint being price right now; however, I would be open to
> any advice and information, but I would greatily appreciate to know
> about any 16k voices and which software speech packages can support
> them, and do it with ease and little difficulty?
>
> Thanks so much everyone,
> Sina
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

16k voices

[Sina Bahram]

Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 16k
voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be availible, and
if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible these days. I must
say I am interested in software and not hardware solutions and synths.
The main constraint being price right now; however, I would be open to
any advice and information, but I would greatily appreciate to know
about any 16k voices and which software speech packages can support
them, and do it with ease and little difficulty?

Thanks so much everyone,
Sina

Re: 16k voices

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Honestly, I'd recommend a hardware solution at this point. There are 16k voices out there for festival, flite and freetts. However, that doesn't necessarily 
have anything at all to do with the quality of the voice. Festival, flite, and freetts (software synthesizers) all use the same basic voices. These voices are, in 
my opinion, terrible. Oh, they're clear due to there being 16K, but their inflection is almost nonexistant and, due to the pronunciation they use, they tend to be 
difficult to understand. You can get the software synths and voices at:
festival: http://www.festvox.org/
flite (festival lite): http://cmuflite.org
freetts (java-based speech engine) http://freetts.sf.net/
As of right now, festival is the only software synthesizer supposedly supported by speakup 1.5. I say supposedly because I've never gotten it working 
satisfactorily. You need to apply a patch and run an add-on daemon, but it's incredibly slow to respond, doesn't allow changing of voice parameters like rate 
and pitch, and hasn't been updated or changed since april according to the filename. You can get the patch at:
http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux
if you want to try it.
IMHO, the only good linux software synth is software dectalk, but that costs $50 and speakup doesn't work with it yet. Hint, hint, speakup developers? Any 
chance it'll ever be supported?
If you need help getting the software synthesizer working, let me know. It can be a bit of work, especially if you're going to try festival. Software Speech is 
one of the two major areas in which linux lags behind, I think, the other being OCR.
HTH
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:47 -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:

>Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 16k
>voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be availible, and
>if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible these days.

Re: 16k voices

[Janina Sajka]

Right on, Jacob.

But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
of Festival and Flite, by the way.


Jacob Schmude writes:
> From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude@adelphia.net>
> 
> Hi
> Honestly, I'd recommend a hardware solution at this point. There are 16k voices out there for festival, flite and freetts. However, that doesn't necessarily 
> have anything at all to do with the quality of the voice. Festival, flite, and freetts (software synthesizers) all use the same basic voices. These voices are, in 
> my opinion, terrible. Oh, they're clear due to there being 16K, but their inflection is almost nonexistant and, due to the pronunciation they use, they tend to be 
> difficult to understand. You can get the software synths and voices at:
> festival: http://www.festvox.org/
> flite (festival lite): http://cmuflite.org
> freetts (java-based speech engine) http://freetts.sf.net/
> As of right now, festival is the only software synthesizer supposedly supported by speakup 1.5. I say supposedly because I've never gotten it working 
> satisfactorily. You need to apply a patch and run an add-on daemon, but it's incredibly slow to respond, doesn't allow changing of voice parameters like rate 
> and pitch, and hasn't been updated or changed since april according to the filename. You can get the patch at:
> http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux
> if you want to try it.
> IMHO, the only good linux software synth is software dectalk, but that costs $50 and speakup doesn't work with it yet. Hint, hint, speakup developers? Any 
> chance it'll ever be supported?
> If you need help getting the software synthesizer working, let me know. It can be a bit of work, especially if you're going to try festival. Software Speech is 
> one of the two major areas in which linux lags behind, I think, the other being OCR.
> HTH
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:47 -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> 
> >Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 16k
> >voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be availible, and
> >if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible these days.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Re: 16k voices

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
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?


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:

>Right on, Jacob.
>
>But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
>less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
>available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
>of Festival and Flite, by the way.
>


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Re: 16k voices

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
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?


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:

>Right on, Jacob.
>
>But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
>less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
>available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
>of Festival and Flite, by the way.
>


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Re: 16k voices

[Janina Sajka]

I think the quality is pretty wonjderful. The latest release supposedly
contains all the headers you need to run it with our interfaces, but I
haven't looked into that much beyond downloading the tarball.

Jacob Schmude writes:
> From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude@adelphia.net>
> 
>    Hi
>    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?
> 
>    On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
>    >Right on, Jacob.
>    >
>    >But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
>    >less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
>    >available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
>    >of Festival and Flite, by the way.
>    >

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

RE: 16k voices

[Sina Bahram]

*raises eyebrows* really now? I was under the apparent mistaken
impression that via voice was out of the question for redhat 9. does
anyone else have experience with this? Because I have had very good
exposure to via voice, and personally I have always been satisfied with
via voice's quality, understandability, and clarity. If anyone can help
me install via voice on redhat 9, I would be more than greatful.

Thanks,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:51 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: 16k voices


What about trying festival lite?  Or even viavoice.

now, granted, if you are on Redhat, then I understand viavoice to be a
pain to install...  matt Campbell did it for me, but he practicly from
what I understood, partially had to recompile the source to match the
kurnel in redhat 9.


these are just a few options though that are free.


Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:12 PM
Subject: 16k voices


> Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 
> 16k voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be 
> availible, and if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible 
> these days. I must say I am interested in software and not hardware 
> solutions and synths. The main constraint being price right now; 
> however, I would be open to any advice and information, but I would 
> greatily appreciate to know about any 16k voices and which software 
> speech packages can support them, and do it with ease and little 
> difficulty?
>
> Thanks so much everyone,
> Sina
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup


_______________________________________________
Speakup mailing list
Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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RE: 16k voices

[Sina Bahram]

Thanks Janina, I'll go take a look at them. Have you had any luck with
them, and which ones would you personally recommend?

Thanks again,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:06 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: 16k voices


Right on, Jacob.

But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
of Festival and Flite, by the way.


Jacob Schmude writes:
> From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude@adelphia.net>
> 
> Hi
> Honestly, I'd recommend a hardware solution at this point. There are 
> 16k voices out there for festival, flite and freetts. However, that
doesn't necessarily
> have anything at all to do with the quality of the voice. Festival,
flite, and freetts (software synthesizers) all use the same basic
voices. These voices are, in 
> my opinion, terrible. Oh, they're clear due to there being 16K, but
their inflection is almost nonexistant and, due to the pronunciation
they use, they tend to be 
> difficult to understand. You can get the software synths and voices
at:
> festival: http://www.festvox.org/
> flite (festival lite): http://cmuflite.org
> freetts (java-based speech engine) http://freetts.sf.net/
> As of right now, festival is the only software synthesizer supposedly
supported by speakup 1.5. I say supposedly because I've never gotten it
working 
> satisfactorily. You need to apply a patch and run an add-on daemon,
but it's incredibly slow to respond, doesn't allow changing of voice
parameters like rate 
> and pitch, and hasn't been updated or changed since april according to
the filename. You can get the patch at:
> http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux
> if you want to try it.
> IMHO, the only good linux software synth is software dectalk, but that
costs $50 and speakup doesn't work with it yet. Hint, hint, speakup
developers? Any 
> chance it'll ever be supported?
> If you need help getting the software synthesizer working, let me
know. It can be a bit of work, especially if you're going to try
festival. Software Speech is 
> one of the two major areas in which linux lags behind, I think, the
other being OCR.
> HTH
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:47 -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> 
> >Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 
> >16k voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be 
> >availible, and if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible 
> >these days.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

_______________________________________________
Speakup mailing list
Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: 16k voices

[Janina Sajka]

I'm not too worried about it because I expect to do a complete reformat
and reinstall of the second Severn beta next week.

Sina Bahram writes:
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
> 
> Thanks Janina, I'll go take a look at them. Have you had any luck with
> them, and which ones would you personally recommend?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Sina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: 16k voices
> 
> 
> Right on, Jacob.
> 
> But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
> less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
> available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
> of Festival and Flite, by the way.
> 
> 
> Jacob Schmude writes:
> > From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude@adelphia.net>
> > 
> > Hi
> > Honestly, I'd recommend a hardware solution at this point. There are 
> > 16k voices out there for festival, flite and freetts. However, that
> doesn't necessarily
> > have anything at all to do with the quality of the voice. Festival,
> flite, and freetts (software synthesizers) all use the same basic
> voices. These voices are, in 
> > my opinion, terrible. Oh, they're clear due to there being 16K, but
> their inflection is almost nonexistant and, due to the pronunciation
> they use, they tend to be 
> > difficult to understand. You can get the software synths and voices
> at:
> > festival: http://www.festvox.org/
> > flite (festival lite): http://cmuflite.org
> > freetts (java-based speech engine) http://freetts.sf.net/
> > As of right now, festival is the only software synthesizer supposedly
> supported by speakup 1.5. I say supposedly because I've never gotten it
> working 
> > satisfactorily. You need to apply a patch and run an add-on daemon,
> but it's incredibly slow to respond, doesn't allow changing of voice
> parameters like rate 
> > and pitch, and hasn't been updated or changed since april according to
> the filename. You can get the patch at:
> > http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux
> > if you want to try it.
> > IMHO, the only good linux software synth is software dectalk, but that
> costs $50 and speakup doesn't work with it yet. Hint, hint, speakup
> developers? Any 
> > chance it'll ever be supported?
> > If you need help getting the software synthesizer working, let me
> know. It can be a bit of work, especially if you're going to try
> festival. Software Speech is 
> > one of the two major areas in which linux lags behind, I think, the
> other being OCR.
> > HTH
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:47 -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> > 
> > >Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 
> > >16k voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be 
> > >availible, and if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible 
> > >these days.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Re: 16k voices

[Janina Sajka]

Well, you might be grateful, and you might not be, depending on what
else goes down with all the changes involved.

I believe Dave Mielke posted on how to go about this on blinux some
weeks back--sometime this year. You might want to search that archive
for his post.

Sina Bahram writes:
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
> 
> *raises eyebrows* really now? I was under the apparent mistaken
> impression that via voice was out of the question for redhat 9. does
> anyone else have experience with this? Because I have had very good
> exposure to via voice, and personally I have always been satisfied with
> via voice's quality, understandability, and clarity. If anyone can help
> me install via voice on redhat 9, I would be more than greatful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Chris
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:51 AM
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: 16k voices
> 
> 
> What about trying festival lite?  Or even viavoice.
> 
> now, granted, if you are on Redhat, then I understand viavoice to be a
> pain to install...  matt Campbell did it for me, but he practicly from
> what I understood, partially had to recompile the source to match the
> kurnel in redhat 9.
> 
> 
> these are just a few options though that are free.
> 
> 
> Chris.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:12 PM
> Subject: 16k voices
> 
> 
> > Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some 
> > 16k voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be 
> > availible, and if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible 
> > these days. I must say I am interested in software and not hardware 
> > solutions and synths. The main constraint being price right now; 
> > however, I would be open to any advice and information, but I would 
> > greatily appreciate to know about any 16k voices and which software 
> > speech packages can support them, and do it with ease and little 
> > difficulty?
> >
> > Thanks so much everyone,
> > Sina
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

RE: 16k voices

[Sina Bahram]

Thanks

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:04 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: 16k voices


Well, you might be grateful, and you might not be, depending on what
else goes down with all the changes involved.

I believe Dave Mielke posted on how to go about this on blinux some
weeks back--sometime this year. You might want to search that archive
for his post.

Sina Bahram writes:
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
> 
> *raises eyebrows* really now? I was under the apparent mistaken 
> impression that via voice was out of the question for redhat 9. does 
> anyone else have experience with this? Because I have had very good 
> exposure to via voice, and personally I have always been satisfied 
> with via voice's quality, understandability, and clarity. If anyone 
> can help me install via voice on redhat 9, I would be more than 
> greatful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Chris
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:51 AM
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: 16k voices
> 
> 
> What about trying festival lite?  Or even viavoice.
> 
> now, granted, if you are on Redhat, then I understand viavoice to be a

> pain to install...  matt Campbell did it for me, but he practicly from

> what I understood, partially had to recompile the source to match the 
> kurnel in redhat 9.
> 
> 
> these are just a few options though that are free.
> 
> 
> Chris.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:12 PM
> Subject: 16k voices
> 
> 
> > Hello, I read a few earlier posts on this and other lists about some
> > 16k voices availible for linux. I was wondering what would be 
> > availible, and if 16k voices are truly the highest quality availible

> > these days. I must say I am interested in software and not hardware 
> > solutions and synths. The main constraint being price right now; 
> > however, I would be open to any advice and information, but I would 
> > greatily appreciate to know about any 16k voices and which software 
> > speech packages can support them, and do it with ease and little 
> > difficulty?
> >
> > Thanks so much everyone,
> > Sina
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

_______________________________________________
Speakup mailing list
Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: 16k voices

[Mike Arrigo]

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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. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jacob Schmude 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:57 PM
  Subject: Re: 16k voices


  Hi
  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?


  On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:

  >Right on, Jacob.
  >
  >But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
  >less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
  >available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
  >of Festival and Flite, by the way.
  >

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Re: 16k voices

[Richard Wells]

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Where would one purchase or otherwise obtain the at&t natural voices?

Thank you
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Arrigo 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:45 PM
  Subject: Re: 16k voices


  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. 

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jacob Schmude 
    To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
    Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:57 PM
    Subject: Re: 16k voices


    Hi
    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?


    On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:

    >Right on, Jacob.
    >
    >But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
    >less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
    >available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
    >of Festival and Flite, by the way.
    >

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