From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ns.pcdesk.net ([65.100.173.137] helo=pcdesk.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BgxfC-0005as-00 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:27:34 -0400 Received: from merlin ([192.168.0.10]) (AUTH: LOGIN jbahm, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-MD5) by pcdesk.net with esmtp; Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:26:54 -0600 Message-ID: <000a01c46177$ca72f330$0a00a8c0@merlin> From: "Joseph C. Lininger" To: "Glenn Ervin at Home" , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20040702110914.GD20131@volny.cz><20040702145133.GA12990@volny.cz><20040702165101.GB14137@volny.cz> <014301c4605a$88a8bf20$7700a8c0@desktop> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 21:34:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2096 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2096 Cc: Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 03:27:35 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm@pcdesk.net note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer without a > hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software > synth, > we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any tweaking to > our system which might effect the audio output. > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hynek Hanke" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM > Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 > ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: >> Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk >> and >> eliquence--thanks > > What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do better > so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other > hardware synthesizers. > > Of course, this is also a question for others. > > Regards, > Hynek > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf =nzhY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----